"功虧一簣" meaning in Chinese

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      "english": "Oh! early and late never be but earnest. If you do not attend jealously to your small actions, the result will be to affect your virtue in great matters; in raising a mound of nine fathoms, the work may be unfinished for want of one basket (of earth).",
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      "text": "呜呼！夙夜罔或不勤，不矜细行，终累大德。为山九仞，功亏一篑。",
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      "english": "Oh! early and late never be but earnest. If you do not attend jealously to your small actions, the result will be to affect your virtue in great matters; in raising a mound of nine fathoms, the work may be unfinished for want of one basket (of earth).",
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