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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
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 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
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity

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