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Mediocre people in the world, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, all lost to a lazy word;
All the talents in the world, ancient and modern, were defeated by a proud word.
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Scholars should be ambitious, knowledgeable and persistent. If you are ambitious, you will never be dirty. With knowledge, we know that knowledge is endless, and we dare not be self-sufficient; Such as Hebo watching the sea, such as a well frog peeping into the sky, are ignorant. Nothing is impossible if you have perseverance. These three are indispensable. -"Zeng Guofan's Letter"
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There are countless flowers in the sea that depend on the sky, and the mountains and rivers know it.
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"According to the sky, there are countless flowers in the sea, and the water is high."
Zeng Guofan wrote such a poem in his letter to his younger brother Ceng Guoquan: "Zuo Zhu Zhong Ming slanders the right book, and there are multiplication and division everywhere in the world. He lowered his head and said that everything was too empty. "