KANAE

Work

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By form All ProverbsFour charactersUntranslatable wordsStories behind wordsHaiku · By theme PatiencePerseveranceWorkDisciplineRelationsCourageHumilityLearningLifeSetback & ReboundNatureTime ·
  1. 004 Continuity is strength.
  2. 008 What is good, do quickly.
  3. 013 What one loves, one will do well.
  4. 014 Practice beats being taught.
  5. 019 Proof beats argument.
  6. 025 To care, add care.
  7. 040 He who chases two hares catches neither.
  8. 045 The dyer wears an undyed hakama.
  9. 046 For rice cakes, go to the rice-cake maker.
  10. 047 A skill always ends up helping.
  11. 081 Act, and it will be done; do not act, and it will not — in all things.
  12. 083 The unsown seed does not grow.
  13. 085 The strong one beneath the veranda.
  14. 096 Skilled at everything, rich in nothing.
  15. 099 Accept a loss to gain later.
  16. 114 Strike while the iron is hot.
  17. 120 One thing tells all things.
  18. 121 Begin with Kai.
  19. 123 Trade is like an ox's drool.
  20. 128 A treasure left to rot.
  21. 130 Act without announcing.
  22. 132 One aim, whole heart.
  23. 139 With whole heart, in full sincerity.
  24. 143 Eye drops from the second floor.
  25. 144 Water on a burning stone.
  26. 149 Too many boatmen pull the boat up the mountain.
  27. 152 Unpolished jade does not shine.
  28. 155 The hardships of youth — buy them if you must.
  29. 157 Advance daily, progress monthly.
  30. 172 Ill-gotten money does not stay.
  31. 197 Accumulating the small builds the great.
  32. 233 Summer gale — every blank page on the desk blown away.
  33. 236 The right timber in the right place.
  34. 247 Painting the dragon's pupil.
  35. 251 Grinding one's bones, crushing one's body.
  36. 256 One would even borrow the cat's paws.
  37. 258 For all the gain of one's pains: exhaustion.
  38. 271 The name reveals the thing.
  39. 279 Skilled of tongue, skilled of hand.
  40. 293 In the harvest-watch hut by the autumn fields, its rush roof loose, my sleeves grow wet with dew.