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"I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste."
"The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once."
"The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself."
"No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!"
"The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience."
"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."
"Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact."
"Life, not the parson, teaches conduct."
"Put faith in one who's had experience."
"Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love."
"Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us."
"Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."
"We are older by faith than by experience."
"The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."
"It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day."
"We are superior to the joy we experience."
"The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences."
"The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it."
"Who is old enough to have learned from experience?"
"We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced."
