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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.


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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spiri...
JASON VERSEY You cannot polish a jem without friction
HELENA JEAN Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH SPINOZA Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
DANIEL WEBSTER The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
JANE PORTER Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
JANE PORTER A man without regrets cannot be cured.
ARISTOTLE When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
MAX MULLER A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
FRIEDRICH MAX MüLLER A prophet is without honor in his home because,due to proximity factor a prophet may not be able to ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
MARK TWAIN A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
MARK TWAIN A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
MARK TWAIN You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital
POPE LEO XIII A man without happiness is neither good nor well.
VIKRANT PARSAI I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he w...
BLAISE PASCAL Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives wi...
ARISTOTLE A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these...
HENRY HOME A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
ORIANA FALLACI No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GURDJIEFF Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why
ERIC GILL Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
ERIC GILL To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist withou...
EZRA STILES If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a hor...
ZHANG ZHIDONG One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN Man cannot live without self-control
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at...
JANE AUSTEN A dwell is place of a man's pride and his foundation to be a leader. Without it he cannot lead nor c...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Success without trials is like an ocean without water, it doesn’t exist.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at ...
ALEXANDER WALKER Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at ...
ALEXANDER WALKER There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
KIM JONG-UN A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A race cannot be purified from without.
ANNA JULIA COOPER Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...
SAUL ALINSKY Even one who by his qualities appears to be all knowing suffers without patronage; the gem, though p...
CHANAKYA Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no...
JANE AUSTEN The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You cannot be a hero without being a coward
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Man cannot progress meaningfully in life without taking risk.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BUDDHA A man without a vote is man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK A man without a vote is a man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
MARAT SAFIN A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
MARCIA FUDGE You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.
OMER SOKER Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics det...
JOHN BERGER A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
LAUREN BACALL A man without fear, is a man I strive to be.
GEOFFREY BROKOS It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY However much you study, you cannot know without action.
A donkey laden with books is neither a...
SAADI Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
CLAUDE A HELVETIUS Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of th...
EUGENIO MONTALE A man can walk without shoes but shoes can't walk without a man
GEORGEDALY We will not make progress without clinical trials. It's wrong and unfair to deny patients access to ...
RICHARD KLAUSNER Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
JOHN ADAMS A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about
MICHAEL GRANT Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.
AMIT KALANTRI The man trying to find a horse or a wife without fault has neither steed in his stable nor angel in ...
VIKRANT PARSAI Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.
AMIT KALANTRI Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Perfect love cannot be without equality.
SCOTTISH PROVERB France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Souls cannot be saved without exertion.
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