Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. -
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. -
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. -
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. -
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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- Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.