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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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Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Deem Humorous Love Witty
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
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
. . . 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
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Good Intelligent Job Man Teacher
…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Saint Sinners Tao Te Ching Taoism
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
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
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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Breathtaking Themselves Wisdom Wise
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small 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
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong

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