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

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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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 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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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

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