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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
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
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
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
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
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom

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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