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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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