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3: Difficulty at the Beginning leading to 33: Retreat. Line six says it all…

Horse and wagon part.
Bloody tears flow.

The difficulties at the beginning are too great for some persons. They get stuck and never find their way out; they fold their hands and give up the struggle. Such resignation is the saddest of all things. Therefore Confucius says of this line:

“Bloody tears flow: one should not persist in this.”