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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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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
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
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security

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