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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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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
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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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
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
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World

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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