"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
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"If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?"
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"When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?"
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"He who kisses girl on hillside is not level"
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"Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth."
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"The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks."
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"A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain."
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"Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself."
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"If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?"
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"The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it."
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"Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand."
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"Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety."
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"All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great."
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"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves"
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"Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them."
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"Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man."
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"A picture is poem without words."
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"A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps."
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"Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter."
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"In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral."
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