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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A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.
There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.
Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.
If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.