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Yd kwa, tsing shin shwong ; 

 Sze to, heue ke shwae. 



Tsing pin chang Id; 

 Cho foo to yew. 



JVuh e go seaou, urh wei eke ; 

 IVuh e she?i seaou, urh puh wei. 



Tsoong shen joo leng ; 

 Tsoong go Joo petig. 



.■" With few cravings of the heart, the health is flourishing; 

 With many anxious thoughts, the constitution decays." 



■" Unsullied poverty is always happy : 

 Impure wealth brings many sorrows." 



■" Consider not any vice as trivial, and therefore practice it : 



Regard not any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it." 



" Prosecuting virtue, is like ascending a steep : 

 Pursuing vice, like rushing down a precipice." 



But the antithetic parallel is used not tnerely to give a force to aphorisms. 

 It appears occasionally, though perhaps somewhat less often, in the course 

 of poetry ; and is found to exist in every degree, from the strong mutual 

 opposition of all the corresponding words in a couplet, to that of only 

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