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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
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
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
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom

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