Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings .Chapter One. Cause and effect. Part three.

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Chinese Proverbs-Popular Sayings - the world's literary heritage
Cause and effect.
Sharp as a needle to grind a blunt axe,
Your strength to the utmost will surely tax.
To make a man of yourself you must toil; if you
don't, you won't.
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the
plain.
Without climbing mountains, no one can know the
height of heaven;
Without diving streams, no one
can know the thickness of the earth.
Generals and Premiers spring not from seed sown;
men must exert themselves.
Strike a flint, and you'll get fire; strike it not, and
you'll not get even smoke.