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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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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
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Deep Honor Inspirational Life
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Inspirational Problem Simple Small
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet Taoism
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
. . . 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
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
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
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism

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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