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

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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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
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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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
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
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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking

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