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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.

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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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 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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself

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