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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on a

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. – Thomas Hobbes

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Death
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The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. – Thomas Hobbes

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Death
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry

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Experience

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. – Jeremy Renner

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Experience

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. – Harriet Tubman

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Experience

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

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Experience

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I havent been given many things, but Ive been given ample, limitless patience. – Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck

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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. – Harry Dean Stanton

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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth. – Owen Glendower

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Faith