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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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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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Inspirational Yourself
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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
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
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security

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