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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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 great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere

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

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