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Post No. 16,097

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ஆயிரம் பொன்மொழிகள்! (21-50)

ச. நாகராஜன்

அறிஞர்களின் பொன்மொழிகள், அறநூல்களின் வழிகாட்டுதல்கள் நமக்கு இன்றியமையாத ஒன்று.

இதோ சில பொன்மொழிகள்! (From my collection!)

21. Ching Chow – Thing too much seen

‘Tis written – A thing too much seen is little prized…

Ching Chow – Reprove

Reprove your friend privately…Commend him publicly…

Ching Chow – Tongue – Wiseman

The wiseman’s tongue is a shield; not a sword…

Ching Chow – Miser – Extravagant

A miser grows rich by seeming poor…An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich….

Ching Chow – Speech

Speech is silver- Silence golden- Speech sows – Silence reaps….

Ching Chow – Troubles

If a man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles.

Ching Chow – Unselfish quiet

‘Its fine to be unselfish if you can keep quiet about it….

Truth

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.   – Chancer

Today – Tomorrow

You shall be none the worse to-morrow for having been happy to-day.

30. Today – Tomorrow

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, and with too high a sprit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.     – Emerson

Idiot

To generalize is to be an idiot.               – William Blake

Industry – Handicraft

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to you, but the purse of the artisan’s industry can never get empty.    – Sa’di

Youth – Righteousness

Youth is a curse to mortals, when with youth a man hath not implanted righteousness. – Euripides

Felicity

Many in this world run after felicity like an absentminded man seeking his hat, while all the time it is on his head or in his hand.                                                         – Sydney Smith

Happy man – Self-reliant

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centres all his requirements in himself alone.

–          Cicero

Goodness – Help

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.                                                                                      – Phillips Brooks

Man

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.       – Chinese saying

Wise man – Fool

One wise man is better than forty fools; one moon sheds more light than myriads of stars.

–           Hitopadesha 9-59

Wise Men

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. – Solomon

40. Patience, Brave, Industrious, Cheerful

Be as patient as an Ox, as brave as a Lion, as industrious as a Bee, and as cheerful as a Bird.

                                                                                                 – Serian saying

Pray – God

If you do not wish for His Kingdom, do not pray for it. But if you do, you must be more than pray for it. You must work for it.                                                – Ruskin

Word – Cheer

If you have any word of cheer, speak now, while I am alive to hear.   

Work

Worthy ends come not by wishing; while the hungry lion slumbers, no deer come to his den. –  

–          Hitopadesha

Virtue

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. 

                                                                                                – Thomas Jefferson

Work

It is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community than to perish of inaction in a stagnant solitude.                                                                    – Mrs. Gaskell

World

Be not all sugar, or the world will gulp thee down,

Nor all wormwood, or the world will spit thee out.     – Persian saying

Vulgarity – Sin

Vulgarity is the eighth sin…. And worse than all the others put together, since it perils your salvation in this world.                                                                  – J R Lowell

Wealth – Wife – Life

Keep your wealth, but spend it for your wife; but wealth, wife and all may be spent to save your life.

–          Hitopadesha

Love

Where beauty is, there will be love.

Nature, that wisely nothing made in vain.

Did make you lovely to be loved again.                            – Robert Heath

50. Leisure – Work – Idleness

The advantage of leisure is mainly that we have the power of choosing our own work; not certainly that it confers any privilege of idleness.                       – Lord Avebury

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