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Suffering brings experience.

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,--but we cannot die, Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,-- Lo, all things can be borne!

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Believe Robert who has tried it.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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

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

You can't step twice into the same river.

Experience is the teacher of fools.

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

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.