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  2. The old man lost his horse - Wikipedia

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    Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...

  3. Category:Parables - Wikipedia

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    The old man lost his horse; Parable of the Olive Tree; ... Parable of the drowning man; Parable of the Poisoned Arrow ... The Richest Man in Babylon; S. Ship of Fools ...

  4. The Honest Woodcutter - Wikipedia

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    The woodcutter's cries disturb the chief of the gods as he deliberates the world's business and he sends Mercury down with instructions to test the man with the three axes and cut off his head if he chooses wrongly. Although he survives the test and returns a rich man, the entire countryside decides to follow his example and gets decapitated.

  5. The Parable of the Old Man and the Young - Wikipedia

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    "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young", without the last line: "And half the ...

  6. For Want of a Nail - Wikipedia

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    ("The wise tell us that a nail keeps a shoe, a shoe a horse, a horse a man, a man a castle, that can fight.") [7] For sparinge of a litel cost, Fulofte time a man hath lost, The large cote for the hod. ("For sparing a little cost often a man has lost the large coat for the hood.") [8] [whose translation?] [9]

  7. The Farmer and the Viper - Wikipedia

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    The viper, revived by the warmth, bites his rescuer, who dies realizing that it is his own fault. The story is recorded in both Greek and Latin sources. In the former, the farmer dies reproaching himself "for pitying a scoundrel", while in the version by Phaedrus the snake says that he bit his benefactor "to teach the lesson not to expect a ...

  8. List of stories in the Masnavi - Wikipedia

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    Parable for those who say “if” The man who killed his mother because he suspected her of adultery; The King and his two slaves; The King's retainers who envied his favourite slave; The falcon amongst the owls; The thirsty man who threw bricks into the water; The man who planted a thornbush in the road and delayed to uproot it

  9. Luke 15 - Wikipedia

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    Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. [7]This is the third mention by Luke of the tax collectors (Greek: οι τελωναι, hoi telōnai, also translated as "publicans"); they were previously one of the groups who answered John the Baptist's call to repentance, [8] and Jesus ate with them, amidst the Pharisees' earlier complaints, in chapter 5.