If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not … - Zicheng Hong

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I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?

Zicheng Hong

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

Elegance, Girl, Give, Giving Up, Good, Hard Times

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The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.

Dew, Kind, Rain, Stars, Sweet, Thought

People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.

Attacking, Crudely, People, Skills, Taoism, Treat

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

Attitude, Change, Deception, Endless, Insults, People

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

Games, Good, Human, Player, Spiritual, Take

Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

Running, Feet, Mind, Pathways, Runs, Misleading

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