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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
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
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
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
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water

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