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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

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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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
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
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power

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