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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

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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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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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 gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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 tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
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

By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

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