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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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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
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Affect Ceremony Charity Donation Lost Man Mindset Music Nature Original Satisfaction Seek
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Greatness Inspirational Knowledge Limitation Literature Poet Small Universe Value
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
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Beginning Easy Forget Right 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
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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Infinite Knowledge Life

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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