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No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Age: 81 †
Born: 1600
Born: January 17
Died: 1681
Died: May 25
Dramatist
Military Personnel
Playwright
Poet
Priest
Madrid
Spain
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Metals
Real
Diamond
Steel
Tests
Furnace
Tried
Furnaces
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Virtue
Gleam
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