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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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 with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right

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