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

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

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If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese Proverb

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Strange how we decorate pain. – Margaret Atwood

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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. Psalms 126:5 – Bible

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

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