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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness 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
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
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
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way

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