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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 features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
— Marcel Proust
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or…
— Unknown Author
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like…
— Andre Bazin
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a…
— Lewis Mumford
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature…
— William J. Clinton
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Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
— Edward Abbey
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Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold…
— Unknown Author
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Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people,…
— Friedrich Engels
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