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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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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
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 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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