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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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Desire Fade Happiness Loss Nature Vulgar Worth
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Beginning Easy Forget Right Yourself
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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Establishment Fact Right Word Yourself
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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Enjoyment Goodness Laughter Run
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

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