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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

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Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

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He who sling mud, lose ground.

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

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Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

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The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

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The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

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The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

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A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

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