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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The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
Opportunists take now for an answer.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
When work is pleasure, life is joy.