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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.

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The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself

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