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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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
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
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God

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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