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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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All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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 exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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 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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality

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