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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

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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
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
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
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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 man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong

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