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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I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.
Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.
The art of life is the avoiding of pain.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
To beprepared is half the victory.
Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.