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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
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
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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man 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
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom

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