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“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.”

People World Wells Stills War Courses Half Known Millions Learning Events Goes On Horror Disease Experience Spread Inevitable Well Known Ruined Futility Inconvenience Pox

Book:Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

Source: Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

“We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.”

Together Secret Teach Influence Events Experience Inseparable Connexion

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”

Humans Past Principles Events Experience Train Guides Human Life Customs Past Experiences

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.”

Soul Christian Pain Past Events Lessons Experience Constant Christian Love Verification

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

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