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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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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
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
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
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
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
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
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
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

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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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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