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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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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
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
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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