More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
“Hacket’s Life of Lord Keeper Williams”, notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart!“On taking Leave of ————“, l. 1 (1817)- “A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
More about experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
