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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
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
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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 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
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way

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