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Never lose your child’s heart.

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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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
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
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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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom

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