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子击磬于卫，有荷蒉［1］而过孔氏之门者，
曰：“有心哉，击磬乎！”既而曰：“鄙［2］哉，
? ［3］乎！莫己知也，斯己而已矣。‘深则厉，
浅则揭’［4］。”子曰：“果哉，末之难矣。”
The Master was playing, one day, on a musical
stone in Wei, when a man, carrying a straw basket,
passed the door of the house where Confucius
was, and said, “His heart is full who so beats the
musical stone.” A little while after, he added, “How
contemptible is the one-ideaed obstinacy those
sounds display! When one is taken no notice of,
he has simply at once to give over his wish for
public employment. ‘Deep water must be crossed
with the clothes on; shallow water may be crossed
with the clothes held up.’ ” The Master said, “How
determined is he in his purpose! But this is not
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