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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

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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
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
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
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

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