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The Master said, "Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing.
子曰：“吾有知乎哉？無知也。
But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it."
有鄙夫問于我，空空如也。我叩其兩端而竭焉?！?/div>
The Master said, "The Fang bird does not come; the river sends forth no map: it is all over with me!"
子曰：“鳳鳥不至，河不出圖，吾已矣夫！”
When the Master saw a person in a mourning dress, or any one with the cap and upper and lower garments of full dress, or a blind person,
子見齊衰者、冕衣裳者與瞽者，
on observing them approaching, though they were younger than himself, he would rise up, and if he had to pass by them, he would do so hastily.
見之，雖少，必作，過之必趨。
Yen Yuan, in admiration of the Master's doctrines, sighed and said,
顏淵喟然嘆曰：
"I looked up to them, and they seemed to become more high;
“仰之彌高，
I tried to penetrate them, and they seemed to become more firm;
鉆之彌堅。
I looked at them before me, and suddenly they seemed to be behind.
瞻之在前，忽焉在后。
"The Master, by orderly method, skillfully leads men on.
夫子循循然善誘人，
He enlarged my mind with learning, and taught me the restraints of propriety.
博我以文，約我以禮，
"When I wish to give over the study of his doctrines, I cannot do so,
欲罷不能。
and having exerted all my ability, there seems something to stand right up before me;
既竭吾才，如有所立卓爾，
but though I wish to follow and lay hold of it, I really find no way to do so."
雖欲從之，末由也已。”
