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

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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
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
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
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

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

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