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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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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
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 Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
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
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong

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