There are many truths of which the full 15 meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

To search in our daily cognition for the concepts, which do not rest upon particular experience, and yet occur in all cognition of experience, where they as it were constitute the mere form of connexion, presupposes neither greater reflexion nor deeper insight, than to detect in a language the rules of the actual use of words generally, and thus to collect elements for a grammar.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

We have nevertheless of those ingredients which, being of a contrary operation, heat the blood, bend the nerves, unite the spirits, quicken the senses, strengthen the muscles, and thereby rouse up, provoke, excite, and enable a man to the vigorous accomplishment of the feat of amorous dalliance.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

There are indeed reasons for this, other than the absence of discussion: there are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until personal experience has brought it home.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

There he remained until past eleven at night.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Il est à signaler que compte tenu de notre intérêt pour les premières oeuvres, un manuscrit imparfait mais qui nous semble receler un potentiel est généralement accepté, dans l'optique d'un retravail dont il sera question plus loin.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

(She rushes up, pushing every one aside.)
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

En efecto, en las llanuras de Bogotá reina una primavera eterna, fenómeno que asombra a algunos extranjeros ignorantes que no alcanzan a explicárselo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I will not remind the reader here of the horrible vacillations and inconsistencies of policy in Greece that have prolonged the war and cost us wealth and lives beyond measure, but President Wilson himself has reminded us pungently enough and sufficiently enough of the follies and disingenuousness of our early treatment of the Russian Revolution.
— from In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[4] Admiranda et penè inimitabilis comparatio (saith Spond.); and yet in the explication of it, he thinks all superfluous but three words, ὀλίγῳ ἐνὶ χώρῳ, exiguo in loco , leaving out other words more expressive, with his old rule, uno pede, etc .
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

After much time spent by Captain Burnes in fruitless negotiation at Caubul, it appeared that Dost Mahomed Khan, chiefly in consequence of his reliance upon Persian encouragement and assistance, persisted, as respected his misunderstanding with the Sikhs, in urging the most unreasonable pretensions, such as the Governor-General could not, consistently with justice and his regard for the friendship of Maharajah Runjeet Singh, be the channel of submitting to the consideration of his Highness; that he avowed schemes of aggrandisement and ambition injurious to the security and peace of the frontiers of India; and that he openly threatened, in furtherance of those schemes, to call in every foreign aid which he could command.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Without the means to collect the enormous body of facts required to justify national action the Eugenists have been content to rely upon personal experiences, isolated family histories and the normal and abnormal facts which newspapers, biographies and daily life presented to them.
— from Race Improvement; or, Eugenics: A Little Book on a Great Subject by La Reine Helen McKenzie Baker

So that, talk as long as Parson MALTHUS likes about 'moral restraint ;' and report as long as the Committees of Parliament please about preventing ' premature and improvident marriages' amongst the labouring classes, the passion that they would restrain , while it is necessary to the existence of mankind, is the greatest of all the compensations for the inevitable cares, troubles, hardships, and sorrows of life; and, as to the marriages , if they could once be rendered universally provident , every generous sentiment would quickly be banished from the world.
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

I must have gone to sleep when Jim was talking about the girl, for I dreamed that there was a million angels in rebel uniforms, poaching eggs for me.
— from How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Le bloc était à deux pas, alors il me met la louche au colas et je pirouette en lui refilant un coup de panier sur le citron ; puis je lui refile une pousse et je fais patatrot .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased, but underlying weaknesses - a high poverty rate, poor education rates, a weak legal system, and low administrative capacity - risk undermining planned economic reforms.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency