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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Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.
Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares
The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.