A gem is not

A gem is not
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.
  

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.
you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
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To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.
Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.
He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.
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