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"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
"Seth joined the group of very stern-looking men, and they immediately started talking, their voices too low for me to hear, but it didn't stop me from trying. I learned fairly quickly that I sucked at reading lips. Everything looked like they were saying "tomatoes or "I love you and I doubted that was what was being said."
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
"Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room."
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