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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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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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
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
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
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
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
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
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way

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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