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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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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
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
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

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