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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

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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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way

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