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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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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
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 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
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
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 feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection

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