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Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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
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 the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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