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Quote by Samuel Smiles
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles

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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. – Samuel Smiles

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Experience
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Samuel Smiles
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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. – Samuel Smiles

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Fairies
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. – Samuel Smiles

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Neglect, Negligence
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. – Patrick Henry

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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and theyll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle. – Robert Rodriguez

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Experience

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience. – Willie Stargell

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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. – David Copperfield

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