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EXPERIENCE
EXPRESSION
245
1

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Matthew GreenThe Spleen. L. 312.


2

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Patrick HenrySpeech at Virginia Convention. March 23, 1775.


3

Stultorum eventus magister est.

Experience is the teacher of fools.

LivyAnnales. XXII. 39.


4

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

LowellAmong my Books. Shakespeare Once More.


5

Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one
thing after another.
Manilius—Astronomica. I. 90.
/e Experience, next, to thee I owe,
/Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
I / In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.
 | author = Milton
 | work = Paradise Lost.
 | place = Bk. IX. L. 807.


What man would be wise, let him drink of the
,, river
/ That bears on his bosom the record of time;
/ A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to
climb.
John Boyle O'Reilly—Rules of the Road.


Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
John Boyle O'Reilly—Rides of the Road.
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Nam in omnibus fere minus valent prsecepta
quam experimenta.
In almost everything, experience is more
valuable than precept.
Qthntilian—De Institutione Oratoria. II. 5. 5.


I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,
As watchman to my heart.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 45.
n I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.
Shelley—Queen Mab. III. L. 6.


Experientia docet.
Experience teaches.
Founded on Tacitus—Annaks. Bk. V. 6.


I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I mbve.
 | author = Tennyson
 | work = Ulysses. (Free rendering of
Dante's Inferno. Canto XVI.)
And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.
 | author = Tennyson
 | work = Will Waterproof; Lyrical Monologue.


Experto credite.
Believe one who has tried it.
Vergil—Æneid. XI. 283.


Experto crede Roberto.
Believe Robert who has tried it.
A proverb quoted by Burton—Introduction
to Anatomy of Melancholy. Common in the
middle ages. Experto crede Ruberto is
given as a saying in a discourse of Ulricus
Meliter to Sigismond, Archduke of Austria. (1489) Same hi Coronis—Apolog.
pro Erasmus Coll. First version is in an
epitaph in an old chapel of Exeter College.
(1627) Le Roux de Lincy traces it to
Gomes de Trier—Jardin de Recreation.
(1611)
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 | text = <poem>Learn the lesson of your own pain—learn to
seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul—in the constant
verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
Mrs. Humphry Ward—Robert Elsmere.
Ch. XXVII.


18

Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he-learns from his own experience.

WielandOberon. II. 24.


19

Jolie hypothese elle explique tant de choses.

A pretty hypothesis which explains many things.

 Quoted by Mr. Asquith, Speech in Parliament, March 29, 1917, as "a saying of a witty Frenchman."


20

Denn wenn sich Jemand versteckt erklart, so ist Nichts unhoflicher als eine neue Frage.

For when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question.</poem>

Jean Paul RichterHesperus. II.


21

Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.

Ben JonsonThe Masque of Hymen.


22

Patience and sorrow strove
Who should express her goodliest. You have seen
Sunshine and rain at once: her smile and tears
Were like a better way.

King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 18.