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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset 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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth

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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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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