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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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 Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior

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