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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
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
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
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
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere

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

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