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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.

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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
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 goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.

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