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“When the mind is not present, we look and do not see; we hear and do not understand; we eat and do not know the taste of what we eat.”

"If doing what is to be done be made the first business, and success a secondary consideration—is not this the way to exalt virtue? To assail one's own wickedness and not assail that of others—is not this the way to correct cherished evil? For a morning's anger to disregard one's own life, and involve that of his parents—is not this a case of delusion?"

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”

“Learn as if you could not teach your object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose it.”

“The Master said, ‘Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.’”