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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil
-Tao Te Ching - Two
Those who know do not talk
Those who talk do not know
-Tao Te Ching- Fifty-Six
That which shrinks
Must first expand.
That which fails
Must first be strong
That which is cast down
Must first be raised.
Before receiving
There must be giving.
This is called the perception of the nature of things.
Soft and weak over come hard and strong.
-Tao Te Ching- Thirty-Six
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\"Why?\"
Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-developement. To realize one's own nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar, but their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us.
from The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Your loveliness I can only see,
Like waves upon the sea;
Touch and dream,
Yet, it is only a dream to me.
Your beauty etched in me.
I reckon tomorrow will be the saddest day of my life.
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