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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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All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
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
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
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
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature

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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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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