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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not…
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…
— Wendell Berry
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
— Thomas Jefferson
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
— Mark Twain
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What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
— Eric Idle
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If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have…
— Muhammad
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When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses…
— Laozi
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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof…
— Allen Ginsberg
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates…
— Sean O'Casey
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There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
— Charles Saatchi
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"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to…
— Alexandra David-Neel
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