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“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.”

Ifs Years Facts Fall Gains Advantage Empty Paid Twenties Errors Careful Crafts Recalls Coins Boast Elders Purses Resent Artisans Years Of Experience Redundancy

Author:Trevanian

“As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.”

Thinking Care Fall Mistake Gains Take Care Pardon Merciful Being Me

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.”

People Thinking Trying Years Wells Happens Age Fall Accepting Nice Gains Trade Aging Old Age Falling Apart Mellow

Author:Woody Allen

“If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Humans Done Philosophy Fall Left I Believe Sides Differences Lines Space Rights Conditions Gains Concerned Property Acquire Human Condition Platforms

Author:George Carlin

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.”

Trying Made Enough Body Moving Fall Teach Masters Enlightenment Gains Train Monk Kung Fu Falling Asleep

Author:RZA

“You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain”

Knows Pain Order Fall Grows Loses Hurt Lessons Sad Gains Sad Love Sad Life Make You Cry Love And Sad Sad And Happy

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”

Mean Soul Self Reason Fall Evil Objects Gains Destruction Shame Sake Seeking Ruins Fallen Motive No Reason Wickedness Foul Shameful Self Destruction Depraved Firmament

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.”

May Fall Virtue Gains Temptation

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”

World War Ends Fall Passion Grows Blood Spring Deserve Gains Guilty Consideration Shed Calamity Fury Indulgence

Book:A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

Source: A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

“I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45. . ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control of my reproductive potential and its power over my destiny. Finally, instead of letting nature continue to screw around with me, at least in this one area I engineered a pre-emptive strike.”

Years Age Lasts Fall Destiny Gains Areas Strikes Tied Screws Tubes My Destiny

Author:Marion Winik

“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”

Fall Nature Beauty Dying Gains Sunset Autumn Gorgeous Apes Buttocks Harlem Renaissance

Author:Langston Hughes

“I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.”

People Persons Doe Fall Causes Gains Negative Weight Patterns Discrimination Damage Unhealthy Overweight Susceptible Public Image

Author:Maria Kang

“So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")”

Mind Helping Fall Loses Hurt Forget Gains Golf Investors Headlines Edits Sellers Buyers Truism Make Someone Happy

Author:Warren Buffett

“Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.”

Inspirational Christian Spiritual Law Fall Passion Religious Sin Virtue Gains Insult Opposition Sinner Orthodox Good Will Rancor

Author:Marcus Eremita

“Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a result, they borrow additional money by using their credit card and they fall into high debt. The result of the growing income gap is a slower growing GDP (too few people with money to spend) and a rising tide of indebtedness.”

People Enough Fall Results Growing Percent Gains Credit Debt Productivity Income Cards Rising Gaps Tides Credit Card Gdp Indebtedness

Author:Philip Kotler

“I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!”

Want Fall Five Gains Machines Chinese Pounds Motivated Couches Wagons Chinese Food

Author:Shemar Moore

“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

Spirit Fall Lost Heard Battle Losing Gains Good Day Leaves Of Grass

Author:Walt Whitman

“You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”

World Fall Passion Chance Too Much Masters Gains Aspiration Reproach

Book:A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford

Source: A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford

“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future”

“UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.”

“We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.”

Ifs Knows Soul Moments Order Fall Opportunity Grows Understanding Accepting Struggle Eternal Conscious Gains Caught Limitation Traps Worthless

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”

Source: Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.”

Feels Wells Helping Light Seems Moving Fall Loses Feet Balance Gains Helping Others Idiot Hopeless Keep Going Get Back Touching Inches Dirt Keep Moving

Book:Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I’m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin’. —c) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I think I might like you.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans I Can Soul Helping Might Fall Like You Conversation Gains Blue Falling In Love Lips Phones Lists Immortality Fairy Puppets Impart Just Sayin

Author:Laini Taylor

“I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.”

Ifs World Believe Persons Whole Fall I Believe Essentials Diversity Gains Unity I Believe In Whole World Unity In Diversity

Author:Mahatma Gandhi