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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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Argument Energy Exhaust Form Heaven Point Soul Tree
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame Fear Pursue Risk Scholar
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Broad Busy Calm Greatness Understand
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
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Allow Natural Satisfaction Yourself
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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Deep Follow Teacher True Wisdom
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Clear Dangerous Eyes Greatness Heart Sharp
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.
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Children Deep Learning Live Talk Teacher

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

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