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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

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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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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 way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
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
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right

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