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

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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
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
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
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 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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner

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