 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869
...be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them.3 Eemember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. " And now, to conclude, ' Experience keeps a dear school,4 but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that;6 for it is true, we may give advice,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872
...upon your own industry, and frugality, and prudence, though excellent things ; for they may all be blasted without the blessing of Heaven ; and, therefore,...a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,' as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for it is true, ' We may give advice, but we cannot give... | |
 | Jack Nachbar, John G. Nachbar, Kevin Lausé - Social Science - 1992 - 504 pages
...feasts and wise men eat them. Experience If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. III. 1800s The religious tradition of the seventeenth century had attributed success to luck (some... | |
 | Francis L. Brannigan - Technology & Engineering - 2006 - 667 pages
...went unheeded. Fire fighters must learn not to wait for "experience." Wise old Ben Franklin told us, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." In the fire service the price of experience is blood and grief. The post-tensioned collapse hazard... | |
 | Alyce M. McKenzie - Religion - 1996 - 170 pages
...sayings in Proverbs. "He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing." "Diligence is the mother of good luck." "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that." "Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it." "Many estates are spent in the getting,... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 845 pages
...ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at the present seem to want [lack] it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous.32 In his Autobiography, published in complete form in 1868, Franklin mentions a small book... | |
 | Jack D. Wilner - Business & Economics - 1997 - 256 pages
...learn from it, we would be fools, indeed. Ben Franklin said it first in Poor Richard's Almanac (1757): Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Learning to Delegate You might think that once you are the sales manager, you will find it easy to... | |
 | Hyrum W. Smith - Business & Economics - 2001 - 256 pages
...The process of amending our beliefs happens all the time. It's called experience. Ben Franklin wrote, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." As another writer put it, "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from poor judgment."... | |
 | J. D. Kroft - Reference - 2000 - 308 pages
...—Lowell Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. —Earl WilsoH Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, —Benjamin Franklin Fools learn by experience, but the wise by the experience of others; and the way... | |
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