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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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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
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
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
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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

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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