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    "title": "Chapter 63 — Acting Without Acting",
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    "text": "## Chapter 63\n\n\n(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting;\nto conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste\nwithout discerning any flavour; to consider what is small as great,\nand a few as many; and to recompense injury with kindness.\n\n(The master of it) anticipates things that are difficult while they\nare easy, and does things that would become great while they are\nsmall. All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a\nprevious state in which they were easy, and all great things from one\nin which they were small. Therefore the sage, while he never does\nwhat is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest\nthings.\n\nHe who lightly promises is sure to keep but little faith; he who is\ncontinually thinking things easy is sure to find them difficult.\nTherefore the sage sees difficulty even in what seems easy, and so\nnever has any difficulties.",
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