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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Country Life People Taoism Thinking
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Compassion Country Taoism Town
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Attention Country Done Emotion Humble People
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing

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