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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 great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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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Inspirational Yourself
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational

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