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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
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
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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 Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule

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