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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 Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking…
— Antonio Machado
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As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.
— Rumi
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I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
— Aleksandr Kuprin
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A good wanderer leaves no trace.
— Laozi
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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
— A. E. Housman
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I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail…
— Everett Ruess
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