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So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
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
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
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
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
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
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
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

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