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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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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water

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