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  2. Parable - Wikipedia

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    A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. [1]

  3. Parables of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Kenneth Boa states that "Parables are extended figures of comparison that often use short stories to teach a truth or answer a question. While the story in a parable is not historical, it is true to life, not a fairy tale. As a form of oral literature, the parable exploits realistic situations but makes effective use of the imagination...

  4. The Honest Woodcutter - Wikipedia

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    The Greek version of the story tells of a woodcutter who accidentally dropped his axe into a river and, because this was his only means of livelihood, sat down and wept. . Taking pity on him, the god Hermes (also known as Mercury) dived into the water and returned with a golden

  5. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  6. 5 important lessons we learned from Roald Dahl's stories - AOL

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    Each of Dahl's iconic stories taught us about life, love, and finding ourselves in the unlikeliest of places. Here are some lessons we learned from five of his most famous stories and scripts. 1.

  7. The North Wind and the Sun - Wikipedia

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    In Hecatomgraphie (1540), the first of these, the story is told in a quatrain, accompanied by a woodcut in which a man holds close a fur cloak under the wintry blast while on the other side he strips naked beneath the sun's rays. It is titled with the moral "More by gentleness than strength" (Plus par doulceur que par force). [4]

  8. Inspiring Stories from People Who Found Their True Calling ...

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    From Car Doc to People Doc. By Andy Simmons. Carl Allamby overcame self-doubt to realize his lifelong dream. Carl Allamby had a problem. It was his auto-repair business.

  9. Where Love Is, God Is - Wikipedia

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    "Where Love Is, God Is" is a short story about a shoemaker named Martin Avdeitch. The story begins with a background on Martin's life. He was a fine cobbler as he did his work well and never promised to do anything that he could not do. He stayed busy with his work in his basement which had only one window.

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