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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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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 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
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
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
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
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
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

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