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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
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
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
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
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 Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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

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