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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Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him
Nostrength within, no respect without.
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side
To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.
If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.
Necessitynever made a good bargain.
There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.
Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.