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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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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
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 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
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
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
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

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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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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