No Kindness for Others

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They who expect to live without enemies, yet have no kindness for others, are like one who should try to hold a heated body without dipping it in water.

Men expect by their own darkness to enlighten others. The artisan may give a man compass and square, but he cannot make him skillful in the use of them.

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