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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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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
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See

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