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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. 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.

  4. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Parable of the Two Sons - Wikipedia

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    The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican has a similar theme. Parable of the two sons . Cornelius a Lapide, in his great commentary, writes that "This parable scarcely needs an explanation, because Christ applies and explains it. In truth, the first—being at the beginning unwilling to obey his father, but afterwards repenting and obeying ...

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

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    Toby Keith. 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 ...

  9. The Old Man and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    The moral drawn from the fable by Babrius was that "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher". In his emblem book Hecatomgraphie (1540), Gilles Corrozet reflected on it that if there can be friendship among strangers, it is even more of a necessity among family members. [4]