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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
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
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
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
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature

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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