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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
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
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See

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