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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

Mencius

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
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
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
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
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking

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