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The Great Learning

English translation by James Legge
taken from http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/conf2.htm
Chinese text taken from
http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/pre-qin/daxue.html

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11
These passages all show how those sovereigns made themselves illustrious.

12
On the bathing tub of T'ang, the following words were engraved: "If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation."

13
In the Announcement to K'ang, it is said, "To stir up the new people."

14
In the Book of Poetry, it is said, "Although Chau was an ancient state the ordinance which lighted on it was new."

15
Therefore, the superior man in everything uses his utmost endeavors.

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