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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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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water

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