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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

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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
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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 great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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 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

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