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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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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
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
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
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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

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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