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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; On Parables; Orphans (Lyle Kessler play) P. Parable of the broken window; Parable of the drowning man;

  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 ...

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  7. The Farmer and the Viper - Wikipedia

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    The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".

  8. 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]

  9. The Meaning of Toby Keith's 'Don't Let the Old Man In'

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    Toby Keith's last awards show performance before his death from stomach cancer in February 2024 was at the 2023 People's Choice Country Awards in September, at which he performed his song "Don't ...