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The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
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 great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
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 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
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

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