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TAO gives them life,
Virtue nurses them,
Matter shapes
them,
Environment perfects them.
Therefore all things without
exception worship Tao and
do homage to Virtue.
They have not
been commanded to worship Tao and do
homage to Virtue,
But
they always do so spontaneously.
It is Tao that gives them life:
It is Virtue that nurses them, grows
them, fosters them,
shelters them, comforts them, nourishes them,
and
covers them under her wings.
To give life but to claim
nothing,
To do your work but to set no store by it,
To be a leader,
not a butcher,
This is called hidden Virtue.
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