Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. -
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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