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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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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
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
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
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 Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
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
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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

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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