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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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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
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
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
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book

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