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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.


He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.


He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.


Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.


Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.


I know myself, but that is all.


Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.


To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.


A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.


The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.


Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.


I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.


Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.


Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.


The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.