GEMS OF THOUGHT
EXPERIENCE. However learned or eloquent, man knows nothing truly that he has npt learned from experience.—Wieland. . In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform., pur judgment as to the future amounts to moral James Beattie. Experience is victor, never the vanquished; and out of defeat pomes the secret of victory. That tomorrow starts front today and is one day beyond it, robes the future with hope’s rainbow hues. —Mary. Baker JSd.dy. To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.—Coleridge. .No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.—Terence. Nor deem the irrevocable past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last ; To somewhat nobler we attain. I —Longfellow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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