“What follows the way of Heaven prospers and what goes against it perishes.”
Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001)
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), p. 290
“They who accord with Heaven are preserved, and they who rebel against Heaven perish.”
— Mencius
Book 4, part 1, ch. 7
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speaking to an NRA group
[Huckabee, Fluent in the NRA’s Language, Jim, Geraghty, 2007-09-21, National Review, http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/11849/huckabee-fluent-nras-language, 2011-03-01]
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Fragment 288. (Plumptre's translation, as cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1906)
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1544: Who has not found the Heaven — below —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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