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Chapter 45

1 Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.

2 Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity
and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
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