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All Experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Adams, Henry
Education of Henry Adams
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Nothing in Education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Adams, Henry
Education of Henry Adams
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There could be no doubt of it. The burden of the Treasury at that time was very great. The whole financial system was in chaos; every part of it required reform; the utmost experience, tact, and Skill could not make the machine work smoothly.
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Adams, Henry
Education of Henry Adams
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The Experience of three thousand years had educated society to feel the vastness of Nature, and the infinity of her resources of power, but even this increase of attraction had not yet caused economies in its methods of pursuit.
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Adams, Henry
Education of Henry Adams
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Most school Experience was bad.
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Adams, Henry
Education of Henry Adams
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The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day, the claim of claims; the plea for education, for justice, for charity, the foundation of friendship and love, and of the heroism and grandeur which belongs to acts of self-reliance.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Essays: First Series
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We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no History; only Biography. Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself- must go over the whole
ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Essays: First Series
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Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud, of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence; and even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living, and to write poems from the fancy, at a safe distance from their own experience.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Essays: Second Series
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If, as we who Study ourselves, have learned to do, every one who hears a good sentence, would immediately consider how it does any way touch his own private concern, every one would find that it was not so much a good saying, as a severe lash to the ordinary stupidity of his own judgment
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Essays (Montaigne)
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'what a tangled web we weave when first we Practice to deceive.'
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Montgomery, L. M.
Anne of Green Gables
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