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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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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
Every step is on the path.
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Every Follow Journey Path Step Taoism
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World
From caring comes courage.
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Being Inspirational Inspiring Strong
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
. . . 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
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
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
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
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

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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