| "With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius |
| "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." »Edmund Burke |
| "The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation." »Edward Chapin |
| "When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| "Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished." »Sharon Salzberg |
| "Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer |
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