“86. He that lives well is learned enough.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633Related quotes
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”
Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false.
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“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”
Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1956.
“He who hid well, lived well.”
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”