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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Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
You make a mountain of a mole-hill.
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The comforter's head never aches.
You made your bed, now lie in it.