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"Experience is the extract of suffering."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"Choose an author as you choose a friend."
Friendship
"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed."
Action
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
Confidence
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
Order
"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
Loss
"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
Solitude
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
Kindness
"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
Boredom
"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
Literature
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
Strength
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