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Human nature is disposed to do good.

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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 great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
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
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

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