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Experience Quotes by Henry James
- It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
- Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition…
- Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had…
- Deep experience is never peaceful.
- Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations… — Martha Beck
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis