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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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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
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
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek

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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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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