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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -- Mencius (Meng-tse) (372?-289? BCE)
• The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right.
  -- Mencius (Meng-tse) (372?-289? BCE)...
• Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.
  -- Mencius (Meng-tse) (372?-289? BCE)...
• It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths.
  One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word....
• The wind drives across heaven: The image of The Taming Power of the Small.
  Thus the superior man Refines the outward aspect of his nature....
• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." -- Menciu
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. -- Lazarus Long...
• Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconvenience
  for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility in nature, by representing the sun and stars as immoveable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer....
• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...