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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
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
When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Average Believe Diligently Practice
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
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
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Abandon Accomplishment Inspirational
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
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
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
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowledge Mind Understanding
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism

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