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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Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.
The present is never a happy state to any being
Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.
Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Education is the chief defence of a Nation.
Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.
Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.
Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.