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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

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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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
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
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
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
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
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
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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