Confucian Analects · Analects 8.17
The Master said, 'Learn as if you could not reach your object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose it.'
Chinese · source text【十七章】子曰、學如不及、猶恐失之。
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Confucius · English translation by James Legge · bilingual transcription
James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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