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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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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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
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
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
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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

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