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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them
Experience teaches only the teachable
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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