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Expression: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

We gain Justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto III. St. 16. Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way, And giv'st access, though secret she retire.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 807.

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; A message to him every wave can deliver To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.— JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY — Rules of the

Road. Who heeds not experience, trust him not.— JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY — Rules of the

Road. Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.— POPE — Essay on Man Ep. III. L. 19.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart.— Shakespeare — S. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 45.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind. Sonnet. L. I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven. U.— SHELLEY — Queen Mab. III. L. 6.

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.— MRS. HUMPHRY WARD — Robert Elsmere. Ch. XXVII.

Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.— BEN JONSON — The Masque of Hymen.

Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smile and tears Were like a better way.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 18.