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- The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
- Jacopo Sannazaro
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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