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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. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 18

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    Based on the 2200 year old parable of The Daoist Farmer who lost his Horse (horse +one comes back, son rides horse, breaks leg, soldiers get drafted, son gets spared..), the Chinese are supposted to have a proverb saying "Sai Ong lost a horse..." meaning "Okay, bad luck right now, but who knows...?". (a) Is that true?

  4. Category:Parables - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; Tagalog; ... The old man lost his horse; Parable of the Olive Tree; ... Parable of the drowning man; Parable of the Poisoned Arrow;

  5. 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.

  6. Chengyu - Wikipedia

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    old man from the frontier lost his horse: a blessing in disguise See Huainanzi: 刻舟求劍 (kè zhōu qiú jiàn) carve the boat in search of the sword approach without considering the reality of a situation See Lüshi Chunqiu: 火中取栗 (huǒ zhōng qǔ lì) take chestnuts out of the fire Someone acting in another's interest

  7. Grani - Wikipedia

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    The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome gray horse that no one had ever mounted. The grey-bearded old man says that the horse is from "Sleipnir's kin" and that "he must be nourished heedfully, for it will be the best of all horses". The old man vanishes.

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  9. 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