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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

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