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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

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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
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth

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