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Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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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
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
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
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
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
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men 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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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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Children Failure Heart Men
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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