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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

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Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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Dream Opportunity Success Weed
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
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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Everybody Overcome Strong Taoism
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Country Life People Taoism Thinking
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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Country Credit Giving Lead People Tke
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Enough Know Misfortune
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism

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