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Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

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A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

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Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

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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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I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

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Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

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He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

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At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

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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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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

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