If You Did Not Do So For

Some Are Born With Knowledge, Some Derive It From Study, And Some Acquire It Only After A Painful Realization Of Their Ignorance. But The Knowledge Being Possessed, It Comes To The Same Thing. Some Study With A Natural Ease, Some From A Desire For Advantages, And Some By Strenuous Effort. But The Achievement Being Made, It Comes To The Same Thing.

If A Man Has No Humaneness What Can His Propriety Be Like? If A Man Has No Humaneness What Can His Happiness Be Like?

To Study And At Times Practice What One Has Learned, Is This Not A Pleasure?

The Highest Kind Of Man Is The One Who Does Before Talking And Practices What He Professes.

The Master Said Of Gong Yechang, “he Is Marriageable. Although He Was Once Imprisoned And Branded As A Criminal, He Was In Fact Innocent Of Any Crime.” The Master Gave Him His Daughter In Marriage. (analects 5.1)