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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

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Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
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
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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Emptiness Inspirational Mind
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
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Powerful Strength Strong Victory
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life 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

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