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Quote by Samuel Smiles
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience

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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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. – Samuel Smiles

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. – Samuel Smiles

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright

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If were picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a new Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. – Antonin Scalia

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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. – Elie Wiesel

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I would vote for the man whos lived life, whos done different occupations, whos been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So Id vote for experience, honest experience. – Oliver Stone

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