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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

Mencius

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
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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 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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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book

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