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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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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
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
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
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
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
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
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
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong

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