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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
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
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 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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven 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
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government 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
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way

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