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Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 47

Without going outside, you may know the whole world.
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.

Thus the sage knows without travelling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing.


(translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

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