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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - T

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Thomas Carlyle

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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. – Thomas Carlyle

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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot

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The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. – Richard Bach, Running From Safety

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