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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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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Burton
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and…
— Tacitus
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One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Francis Burton
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Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.
— Laozi
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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
— Joyce Cary
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through…
— Paul Tillich
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Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
— Haruki Murakami
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But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a…
— Daniel Handler
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A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into…
— Jules Verne
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Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours…
— Savitri Devi
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