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May 23rd, 1999. "Experience." "I am part of all that I have met." - Tennyson: Ulysses. "The most valuable result of many years is a nicely-balanced mind instinctively heedful of various errors; but such a mind is the incommunicable gift of individual experience ..." - Bagehot: The English Constitution. "[It] never has been the subject of dispute, either in philosophy or common life. ... it is from past experience that we draw all inferences concerning the future..." - Hume. "There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health." - Bacon. "Things done well And with a care exempt themselves from fear: Things done without example, in their issue Are to be fear'd." - Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act 1. [Top] [Archives] [To Blupete's Essays] [Thoughts & Quotes of blupete] [Home] Peter Landry May, 1999 (2019)