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Post No. 16,101

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ஆயிரம் பொன்மொழிகள்! (51-80) 

ச. நாகராஜன்

அறிஞர்களின் பொன்மொழிகள், அறநூல்களின் வழிகாட்டுதல்கள் நமக்கு இன்றியமையாத ஒன்று.

இதோ சில பொன்மொழிகள்! (From my collection!)

51. Ching Chow – Kindness

‘Tis written- A forced kindness deserves No Thanks…

Ching Chow – Flattery

Flattery is indeed sweet food to those who can swallow It ..

Ching Chow – Evil man

‘Tis written – An evil man always stumbles over evil….

Ching Chow – Fools

Twin fools are they who know everything and they who know nothing..

 Mind – Simplicity

Maintain a holy simplicity of mind, and do not smother yourself with a host of cares, wishes, or longings, under any pretext.                                                        – S. Francis de Sales

Mistake – Fool

Anyone can make a mistake, but it is only a fool who makes the same mistake twice.

Speech – Silence

Speak the truth, but without offence. Should this be too disagreeable, be silent: but tell no pleasant lies.

–          Manu

Rise

Those who live on the mountains have a longer day than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher.   

Temper

Keep your temper. It is worth more to you than to anyone else. 

60. Friendship

We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We live thick, and we are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.                     – Walden

Be Second – Leader

Be second, and not the first; if all goes well the share will be the same; if not, the leader is to blame.

–          Hitopadesha

Friend – Foe – Wealth – Woe

Fail not thy Friend,

      Fear not thy Foe,

Vaunt not thy Wealth,

      Wail not thy Woe

Kindness

Each of us can bring the dream of peace nearer realisation by being in our individual relations more kindly, more tolerant, more sympathetic, and, above all, less critical of each other.      Ida Clarke

Judge – Portrait

No man is a judge of his own portrait.     – G. Bernard Shaw

Actions – Just

The bright actions of the just

Survive unburied in the kindred dust.            – Pindar

Atmosphere – Beauty

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.                  – Thoreau

Love

Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear;

It is not night if thou be near.                       – John Kelley

Love

Better to be carving with love and a jack-knife than waiting discontentedly for a sculptor’s chisel.

Evil – Good

Evil no nature hath, the loss of good is that which gives to sin a livelihood.   – Robert Derrick

70. Evil

It’s easy enough to bear our own evils, all we need for that is a little manliness; what’s intolerable is the evil, often so unmerited in appearance, that befalls others.     – W. Somerset Maugham

Evil – Goodmen

All that is necessary for the victory of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke

Fault – People – Picture

They are neither the best pictures, nor the best people, that have no faults.  – Van Gogh

Equity

Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and prosperity and you need not give aims. – Emerson

Error – Dogma

A dogma learnt is only a new error – the old one was perhaps as good; but a spirit communicated is a perpetual possession.              –   R. L. Stevenson

Energy

Energy is eternal delight.   – William Blake

Energy

It is good to battle, to suffer, to be thrown overboard and left to save ourselves. What we lose in comfort we gain in energy, and energy is the most precious of man’s weapons.   – Charles Wagner

Do A Thing – Talk – Discussion – Irritation

Just do a thing, and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success in all enterprises. Talk means discussion, discussion means irritation, irritation means opposition; and opposition means hindrance always, whether you are right or wrong.                       – Sarah Grand

Difficulty – Greatman – Mind

A difficult raiseth the spirits of a great man, he hath a mind to wrestle with it, and give it a fall.

–          Halifax

Desire – Peace

The Fewer Desires

The more Peace. —– Bishop Wilson

80. Draughts

Other people’s draughts are draughts; our own are ventilation.   –  The Etchingham Letters

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