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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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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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
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 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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality

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