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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in…
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence…
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is…
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If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe…
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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Take delight in the simplest things.
— Unknown Author
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take…
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
— Alan Cohen
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any…
— Immanuel Kant
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them…
— Xunzi
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is…
— Charles Edward Montague
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