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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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
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
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
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
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
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
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word

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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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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