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Reading the face to sketch the character — judgment drawn from a glance at the features.
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Reading the face to sketch the character — judgment drawn from a glance at the features.
Lovely the bamboo at the đình's gate — and you, lovely standing all alone, are lovely still — beauty that needs no company.
Whatever hits the disease is the miracle — medicine ranks by cure, not pedigree.
Wind-struck in one ear — half-listening; whatever enters one ear never lands.
A hundred mulberry loads dumped on one silkworm's head — every blame in the house lands on the lowest back.
A hundred clevernesses are less than one practiced hand — theory loses to calluses.
a picture is worth a thousand words; seeing is believing
Hearing about something a hundred times is not worth seeing it once — direct experience beats hearsay.
A hundred years wear down the stone stele; a thousand years, and the stele of mouths still stands — reputation outlasts granite.
A hundred years keeping the word 'follow' whole — as the river runs, so its falls: one husband, no more.
A hundred years, the vow is broken — the old banyan and the same wharf, but a different ferry carries her now — love's landmarks outliving love.
A hundred rivers pour into one sea — all currents find the same great water.
"Fight a hundred battles, win all those hundred"; to win every fight; to be ever-victorious
Moonflowers on the dream-pillow — lovers lingering in each other's sleep.
The dimmed moon still outshines the stars; the landslid mountain still stands above the hill — diminished greatness is greatness still.
Slick as lard — slipperiness, physical or moral.
Strangers first, friends after — awkward at the first meeting, easy by the third.
before and after, one and the same
Long life without aging — the elixir-dream of staying forever young.
A loach spawning atop the banyan — something that will never, ever happen.
Cut the grass, remove the root — extermination that leaves a fiber leaves a spring regrowth.
The strange affinity of aloeswood — wealth breeds ceremony; riches conjure their own rituals.
Beauty that sinks fish and drops wild geese — loveliness the animals themselves concede.
Sink the boats, smash the pots — the general's arithmetic: no retreat, therefore victory.
The Hứa family ghost still walks the earth — a wry reminder that an old promise hasn't been forgotten.
White as cotton — spotless, snowy.
White as a peeled egg — skin of proverbial fairness.
Young, lean on father; old, lean on children — the lifecycle of dependence, both directions honored.
Young in years, green in judgment — the two immaturities that travel together.
An immature, attention-seeking person (originally a young teen) who acts loud, reckless, or edgy, especially online.
The young enjoy the house, the old the pagoda — each age keeps its own good address.
hypnotherapy
Drums rolling, banners open — arrival with the full orchestra.
Drum beating one way, horn blowing the other — a team pulling in opposite directions.
to plant a banana plant
in my humble opinion
all-encompassing; totally inclusive; affecting all things
It’s foggy or stormy.
Heaven gives the tiger no wings — mercy in the design; armed ferocity is kept flightless.
If heaven won't yield, earth must — someone has to bend, or nothing gets settled.
It’s sunny or cloudy.
It’s freezing cold.
Is it going to rain?
the person in question shall be cursed/damned; the person in question shall suffer
It’s raining or snowing.
(phrase) the Heavenly Lord strikes
(phrase) the Heavenly Lord strikes, the sages wrestle
even the Heavenly Lord knows better not to strike at mealtime
Eggs against stone — a contest entered for the sake of the shattering.
the egg is smarter than the duck
Dragon eggs hatch dragons; water-snakes hatch water-snake lines — lineage breeds true.
Perfect yourself to govern others — self-mastery as the root of leadership.
Cultivate the person, bank the virtue — the soul's compound interest.
Practicing the true way — cultivating oneself along the proper path to fruition.
Practice at home — the lay cultivation that outranks any pilgrimage.
No cloister betters the home altar — honor father and revere mother: that is true practice — piety as the highest monastery.
That’s great!
woman of unrivalled beauty
High praise for a moment so perfect it belongs on a movie screen — the Vietnamese rendering of the international "Absolute Cinema" meme.
Advancing in due order — moving step by measured step.