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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

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