Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

—James A. Froude

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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

—James A. Froude

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

—James A. Froude

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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

—Franklin P. Jones

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

—Barry LePatner

Experience teaches only the teachable.

—Aldous Huxley

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

—Aldous Huxley

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