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Everyone under heaven recognizes beauty as beauty
and so ugliness exists.
All recognize good, and so bad exists.
Is and isn't grow out of each other
Hard and easy complete each other
Long and short test each other
High and low are interdependent
Sound and voice harmonize
Beginning and end make each other possible
Therefore the Sage
Practices wu wei,
Carries on wordless teaching,
Creates 10,000 things without instruction,
Rears them, but does not make claims,
Influences, but does not oppress them,
Accomplishes, but does not take credit
So accomplishment endures.
