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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Proverbs
William R. Alger

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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Potential
Sir Thomas Browne

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No pressure, no diamonds.
Adversity
Mary Case

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Faults
Chinese Proverb

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Familiarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Self-knowledge
Benjamin Franklin

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Marriage
Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Colleges and Universities
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Treason
Douglas William Jerrold

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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Value
Samuel Johnson

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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Quality
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Adversity
Robert Leighton

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.
Opportunity
Earl Nightingale

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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Quotations
Joseph Roux

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Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
Mercy
W. Secker

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Age and Aging
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun