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109.The Eagle and his Mother
A YOUNG EAGLE once said to his mother,
“You’re larger than a hedgehog, and swifter, good at soaring along and attacking from above, and you have both claws and a beak to help you. Why not take hedgehogs, mammy?”
She smiled as an eagle can, and said:
“All you say is perfectly true, son. I have the advantages you mention and still more, but after trying to capture just one hedgehog, when I hear even it’s sniffing far below, I just fly further, for that’s how it is to be.”
❖ Once severely pricked, one may be guarded for a life-time. (Once bitten, twice shy)
❖ One learns from mistakes to survive and improve one’s lot.
❖ Know what causes are lost and don’t encourage a lost cause further.
❖ Bitten, pricked or hurt, we are to learn and go further to accomplish what we’re truly good at.
❖ A man’s got to know his limitations.” (Clint Eastwood in a Dirty Harry movie)
