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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…

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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that,… — Isabella Beeton
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience,… — Andre Gide
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and… — Alexander Hamilton
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite,… — William Bayliss
Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything. — John C. Maxwell
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them — Lev S. Vygotsky
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. — Mason Cooley
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its… — Gottfried Leibniz

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