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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

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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
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
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
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

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