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道之大如天，其廣如地，其重如石，其輕如羽。民之所以知者寡，故曰：何道之近而莫之與能服也！棄近而就遠，何以費力也？故曰：欲愛吾身，先知吾情。君親六合，以考內身。以此知象，乃知行情。既知行情，乃知養生。左右前後，周而復所。執儀服象，敬迎來者。今夫來者，必道其道。無遷無衍，命乃長久。和以反中，形性相葆。一以無貳，是謂知道。將欲服之，必一其端而固其所守。責其往來，莫知其時。索之於天，與之爲期。不失其期，乃能得之。故曰：吾語若，大明之極，大明之明，非愛人不予也。同則相從，反則相距也。吾察反相距，吾以故知古從之同也。

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第38篇白心·第7则

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問：「格物於動處用功否？」 先生曰：「格物無間動靜，靜亦物也。孟子謂『必有事焉』，是動靜皆有事。」

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卷上·第87条

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A paper currency which falls below the value of gold and silver coin, does not thereby sink the value of those metals, or occasion equal quantities of them to exchange for a smaller quantity of goods of any other kind. The proportion between the value of gold and silver and that of goods of any other kind, depends in all cases, not upon the nature and quantity of any particular paper money, which may be current in any particular country, but upon the richness or poverty of the mines, which happen at any particular time to supply the great market of the commercial world with those metals. It depends upon the proportion between the quantity of labour which is necessary in order to bring a certain quantity of gold and silver to market, and that which is necessary in order to bring thither a certain quantity of any other sort of goods.

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Book II, Chapter II, paragraph 814

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國有道，不變塞焉，強哉矯！國無道，至死不變，強哉矯！」子曰：「素隱行怪，後世有述焉，吾弗爲之矣。君子遵道而行，半塗而廢，吾弗能已矣。君子依乎中庸，遯世不見知而不悔，唯聖者能之。君子之道費而隱。夫婦之愚，可以與知焉，及其至也，雖聖人亦有所不知焉；夫婦之不肖，可以能行焉，及其至也，雖聖人亦有所不能焉。天地之大也，人猶有所憾。故君子語大，天下莫能載焉；語小，天下莫能破焉。詩云：『鳶飛戾天，魚躍于淵。』言其上下察也。君子之道，造端乎夫婦，及其至也，察乎天地。」子曰：「道不遠人。人之爲道而遠人，不可以爲道。

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第3章

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In like manner the demand for locomotives was very great, and with Mr. Thomas N. Miller[24] I organized in 1866 the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, which has been a prosperous and creditable concern--locomotives made there having obtained an enviable reputation throughout the United States. It sounds like a fairy tale to-day to record that in 1906 the one-hundred-dollar shares of this company sold for three thousand dollars--that is, thirty dollars for one. Large annual dividends had been paid regularly and the company had been very successful--sufficient proof of the policy: "Make nothing but the very best." We never did.

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Chapter IX, excerpt 52

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