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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men

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

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