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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
-Italian Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
-Chinese Proverb
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
-English Proverb
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I know by my own pot how the others boil.
-Proverb
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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
-Proverb
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
-Cleveland Amory
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
-Minna Antrim
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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
-James Baldwin
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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
-James Baldwin
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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
-Arnold Bax
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.
-Gita Bellin
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.
-Walter Benjamin
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
-Ezra Taft Benson
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
-Josh Billings
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
-Josh Billings
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
-Josh Billings
His Works Complete
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
-Randolph Silliman Bourne
Youth and Life
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.
-Louis D. Brandeis
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Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
-Martin Buber
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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
-Buddha
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Books about Experience
