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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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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
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
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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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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 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 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
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

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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