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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Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.
A Habit is a shirt made of iron.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Dig a well before you are thirsty.
If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.
An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.