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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.

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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion 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
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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