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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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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Deep Desire People Philosophy
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
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
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
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
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner

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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