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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

Laozi

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
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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Accomplish Goal Heaven Taoism
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
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
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Manipulation Mind Serenity Taoism
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
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
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
. . . 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

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

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