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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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
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
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
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
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

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