Experience

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Experience teaches only the teachable
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it
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