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Confucius Quotes:

1 They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

2 Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous

3 Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

4 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

5 What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Edit Text

Lao Tzu Quotes:
 
1 The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.
 
2 Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
 
3  To see things in the seed, that is genius.
 
4 When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
 
5 Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Poetry Edit Text
 
 
He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in
 
 
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
 
 
We all are blind until we see
That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making if
It does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world, unless
The builder also grows.
 

 
 

Man With The Hoe

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

 Edwin Markham

 

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