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"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."
"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
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