“Experience is the teacher of all things”
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“Experience is the teacher of all things”
“I have lerned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers”
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
“All experience is an arch to build upon”
“By far the best proof is experience”
“In order to write about life, first you must live it.”
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life ”
“You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ”
“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course”
“If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes”
“Once bitten twice shy”
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen”
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman”
“It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all ”
“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened”
“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand”
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you ”