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9. Practising Placidity
9. Practising Placidity
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9. Practising Placidity

9. PRACTISING PLACIDITY.

1. Grasp to the full, are you not likely foiled? Scheme too sharply, can you wear long? If gold and jewels fill the hall no one can protect it.

2. Rich and high but proud, brings about its own doom. To accomplish merit and acquire fame, then to withdraw, that is Heaven's Way.

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