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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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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
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
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
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner 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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character 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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong

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