"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with…" — Robert South
"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."
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33 Quotes by Robert South
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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret…
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not…
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the…
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives…
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that…
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and…
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to…
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An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
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He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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