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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
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
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
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 lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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 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
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
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

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