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Human nature is disposed to do good.

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
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
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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

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