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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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 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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
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
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
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
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
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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 feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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 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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
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
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security

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