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

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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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
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 feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
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

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