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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner 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
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom

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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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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