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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There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.
Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.
It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.
We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.