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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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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
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship 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
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
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 of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
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

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