--GREEN.
Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like
no other.--CARLYLE.
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in
regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience,
would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things
with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing;
and that those ideas, which in theory appeared the most advantageous,
were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable.
--TERENCE.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get
brightened by it, and not ground.--H.W. SHAW.
It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions
that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the
loss.--L'ESTRANGE.
To wilful men,
The injuries that they themselves procure,
Must be their schoolmasters.
--SHAKESPEARE.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and
scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give
conduct.--FRANKLIN.
All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.--SIR P. SIDNEY.
EXTRAVAGANCE.--He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and
poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.--DR. JOHNSON.
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.
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