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  for all the flashy flourish of appearances,\\
  has nothing heartfelt about it at all.
 ### 8. Art and literature nurture...
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  the quality depends on the discernment of the beholder.\\
 Therefore in study and contemplation\\
- insight into the essential inclination of the subject is of first import.
+ insight into inclinations is of first import.
 ### 9. It is right that the young...
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 It is right that the young and strong\\
- be strong-willed in all things;\\
+ act with focused will in all things;\\
 Instead the will is so trifling light\\
  the youth but drift like a duck upon the waves‒\\
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  the aged are burdened as a fine horse at harness‒\\
 How, then, to shed the fettered self?
+### 10. A crane looming among...
+鶴立雞群 可謂超然無侶矣\\
+然進而觀于大海之鹏 則渺然自小，\\
+又進而求之九霄之鳳 則巍乎莫及，\\
+所以至人常若無若虛 而盛德多不矜不伐也。
+A crane looming among the chicken flock\\
+ may seem aloof and peerless;\\
+Yet going before the roc that looks to the endless sea\\
+ it finds itself insignificant and small indeed, \\
+While farther to the phoenix that seeks the Ninth Heaven\\
+ it is humbled by loftiness beyond its reach.\\
+Therefore a sage ever emulates the nought and null\\
+ and, though great in virtue, is never pompous nor boastful.
+### 11. Moth rushes flame...
+蛾撲火 火焦蛾 莫謂禍生無本，\\
+果種花 花結果 須知福至有因。
+Moth rushes flame; flame roasts moth\\
+Think not that mischance sprouts without roots\\
+Fruit begets flower; flower bears fruit\\
+Know that blessings reach us for cause.
+### 12. Whether autumn bug or...
+秋蟲春鳥 共暢天機 何必浪生悲喜，\\
+老樹新花 同含生意 胡爲妄別媸妍。
+Whether autumn bug or spring bird\\
+ all open up to the Universal Mystery,\\
+ so why should one open the floodgates \\
+ of melancholy, and the other joy?\\
+Ancient tree and newly-bloomed flower\\
+ hold the same will for vitality,\\
+ so why willfully differentiate\\
+ one as unseemly and the other lovely?
+### 13. All lands share...
+萬境一轍 原無地着箇窮通\\
+萬物一體 原無處分箇彼我，\\
+世人 迷真逐妄 乃向坦途上 自說一坎坷，\\
+從空洞中 自築一籓籬 良足慨哉。
+All lands share a single way\\
+ and never were some closed and some clear;\\
+All creation is but one\\
+ and never was there a divide 'twixt you and me.\\
+Yet the world, truth-tricked and chasing phantasms,\\
+ pits the level road all uneven and rutted; \\
+ and in lacuna vast builds encircling walls.\\
+Is this not a lamentable state of affairs?
+### 14. Great works and vast plans...
+大烈鴻猷 常出悠閑鎮定之士 不必忙忙，\\
+休徵景福 多集寬洪長厚之家 何須瑣瑣。
+Great works and vast plans always stem \\
+ from relaxed and steady persons of quality;\\
+ there is no need to be so urgent and busy.\\
+Auspicious omens and blessings immense\\
+ flock to homes of extensive, abundant generosity;\\
+ so why be small-minded and petty?
+### 15. When the virtuous poor...
+貧士肯濟人 纔是性天中惠澤，\\
+鬧場能學道 方爲心地上功夫。
+When the virtuous poor delight in giving aid,\\
+ that is a boon from Heaven-given nature indeed.\\
+When the Way is sought in cacophony and tumult,\\
+ surely the work builds on the bedrock of the soul.