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• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 9:19  + (Men are gnomes condemned to forced toils in the kingdom of darkness (or ignorance).)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:11  + (Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:30  + (Mite added to mite becomes a great heap; the heap in the barn consists of small grains.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 9:14  + (Mock not the deformed; assume not a proud demeanor with thy inferiors; hurt not the feelings of the poor; be kind to those weaker than thyself, and charitable to all beings.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:22  + (Musk is musk because of its own fragrance, and not from being called a perfume by the druggist.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:19  + (Narrowness of mind causes stubbornness; we do not easily believe what is beyond that which we see.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 5:18  + (Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 3:27  + (Neither by the eyes, nor by spirit, nor by the sensuous organs, nor by austerity, nor by sacrifices, can we see Brahma. Only the pure, by the light of wisdom and meditation, can see the pure Deity.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 6:3  + (Neither is Theosophy the pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is sacrifice, the second, renunciation.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 10:26  + (Night and day are the steeds of man; they hurry him on, not he them.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 8:8  + (No creature, no thing is free from evil. The sandal tree has its roots sapped by snakes, its blossoms attacked by bees, its branches broken by monkeys, its top eaten by bears. No part of it is secure from pain.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 7:7  + (No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 8:15  + (No plunge in clear cool water delights so much the heat-oppressed, no pearl necklace the maiden, as the words of the good delight the good.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:23  + (Not every one ready for a dispute is as quick in transacting business.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 8:6  + (Not the tender pliant grass is uprooted by the storm, but the lofty trees. The mighty war only with the mighty.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 8:25  + (Of a gift to be received or given, of an act to be done, time drinks up the flavour, unless it be quickly performed.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 12:3  + (Of all the animals on earth, man alone has the faculty of causing moral trouble.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 11:28  + (Of the eloquence of the pleasant speaker all men are enamored.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 2:16  + (Often vinegar got for nothing, is sweeter to the poor man than honey bought.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 7:1  + (One cannot fill a vacuum from within itself.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 10:9  + (One is not aged because his head is grey: whoever, although a youth, has wisdom, him the gods consider an elder.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 5:4  + (One moment in eternity is as important as another moment, for eternity changeth not, neither is one part better than another part.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 2:12  + (One proof is better than ten arguments.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 9:25  + (Our life is the ante-room of the palace where our true treasure lies – immortality.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 7:26  + (Pagodas are measured by their shadows, and great men by their enviers.)

• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 11:4  + (Patience leads to power, but lust leads to loss.)

• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 4:3  + (Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 4:29  + (People talk of the Devil. Every man has seen him; he is in every sinful heart.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 9:11  + (Pervert not the heart of a man who is pure, for he will turn thine own first enemy.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 12:19  + (Poor transitory mortals know little even of themselves, much less of those who died long before their time.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 5:8  + (Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 12:31  + (Put yourself frankly into the hands of Fate, and let her spin you out what fortune she pleases.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 2:13  + (Rain in the morn brings the sun after noon. He who weeps today, may laugh tomorrow.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 6:11  + (Real self-knowledge is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature of man.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 12:15  + (Remember that life is wearing off, and a smaller part of it is left daily.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#Gem 12:0  + (Ring out the old, ring in the new,<br&g … Ring out the old, ring in the new,<br></br>Ring, happy bells, across the snow:<br></br>The year is going, let him go;<br></br>Ring out the false, ring in the true.<br></br><br></br>Ring out the grief that saps the mind,<br></br>For those that here we see no more;<br></br>Ring out the feud of rich and poor,<br></br>Ring in redress to all mankind.e;<br> Ring out the feud of rich and poor,<br> Ring in redress to all mankind.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 9:15  + (Sacrifice not thy weaker child to the stronger, but protect him.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 9:13  + (Save not thy life at the expense of another's, as he will take two of thy lives in future births.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#Gem 3:0  + (Say not 'I am,' 'I was,' or 'I shall be,'& … Say not 'I am,' 'I was,' or 'I shall be,'<br></br>Think not ye pass from house to house of flesh<br></br>Like travellers who remember and forget,<br></br>Ill-lodged or well-lodged. Fresh<br></br>Issues upon the universe that sum<br></br>Which is the lattermost of lives. It makes<br></br>Its habitation as the worm spins silk<br></br>And dwells therein. makes<br> Its habitation as the worm spins silk<br> And dwells therein.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:16  + (Seek refuge in thy soul; have there thy Heaven! Scorn them that follow virtue for her gifts!)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 5:9  + (Self is the lord of self: who else could be the lord! With self well subdued, a man finds a master such as few can find.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 6:10  + (Self-knowledge is unattainable by what men usually call "self-analysis." It is not reached by reasoning or any brain-powers.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#Gem 9:0  + (Shall there not be as good a 'Then' as 'No … Shall there not be as good a 'Then' as 'Now'?<br></br>Haply much better... <br></br>:::...Therefore fear I not;<br></br>And therefore, Holy Sir! my life is glad,<br></br>Nowise forgetting yet those other lives<br></br>Painful and poor, wicked and miserable,<br></br>Whereon the Gods grant pity! But for me,<br></br>What good I see, humbly I seek to do,<br></br>And live obedient to the law, in trust<br></br>That what will come, and must come, <br></br>:::shall come well.ient to the law, in trust<br> That what will come, and must come, <br> :::shall come well.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 8:19  + (Shun him who secretly slanders, and praises openly; he is like a cup of poison, with cream on the surface.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 7:10  + (Sin should be abstained from, not through fear, but for the sake of the becoming.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 4:24  + (Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 6:28  + (Some pluck the fruits of the tree of knowledge to crown themselves therewith, instead of plucking them to eat.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 6:19  + (Spirituality is not what we understand by the words "virtue" and "goodness." It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 1:15  + (That man alone is wise, who keeps the mastery of himself.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 11:7  + (That man who accurately understands the movement and the cause of the revolutions of the wheel of life is never deluded.)
• Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East#gem 12:22  + (That which does not make man worse, does not make his life worse; as a result, he has no harm either within or without.)