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Advancing in due order — moving step by measured step.
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Advancing in due order — moving step by measured step.
The years wait for no one — arrow-swift, hare-quick, gone.
Cold years reveal the pine and cypress — adversity is where the evergreen heart shows.
Reading the moment, shifting the move — improvising rightly as the situation turns.
Crooked spirits dare not touch the upright — rectitude is its own talisman.
The claimant is the robber's father — losses always inflate in the filing; the injured party pads the bill.
current/checking account or savings account
Wealth scattered gathers the people; wealth hoarded scatters them — a treasury's arithmetic runs backward.
very cold; freezing
The wife of your husk-and-bran days is never sent below stairs; the friends of your poverty are never forgotten — loyalty's two unbreakable clauses.
passenger liner
Working havoc and playing the tyrant — riding roughshod exactly as one pleases.
cup and saucer
The old frontiersman lost his horse — who can say what is disaster, what blessing; every loss may be luck in harness.
to chat idly; to shoot the breeze
to be cruel; to have no conscience
Gall-shattered and soul-stunned — terrified to the marrow.
The mind not at home — attention wandered off; instruction poured past its absent tenant.
Sweet-hearted and fully willing — consent without a grain of reluctance.
to be sincerely convinced; to be won over completely
Heart and spirit unsettled — attention scattered past collecting.
A demon in the heart — the guilty conscience that flinches before anyone accuses.
The tally already in the heart — knowing the answer before a word is said.
A stirred heart, and the spirits already know — intention registers upstairs before the deed.
The Western Pure Land — the blissful realm beyond death; to have gone there is to have died.
Falling arrows and stray bullets — war's random harms landing on the innocent.
when one's actions or results are objectively detrimental despite good intention
Love like a dream dissolving — the parting of lovers, fading as one wakes.
Holy Mother of God!; Mother of mercy!; literally "Father and Mother!"
Store grain against hunger — foresight measured in full jars.
Gold hoarded for descendants they may not keep; hidden virtue is the only estate that compounds — bequeath conduct, not bullion.
Little by little becomes much — accumulation's patient arithmetic.
Bank goodness, meet goodness; bank evil, meet evil — the account always pays out in kind.
Bruised gut and battered liver — smoldering with suppressed fury.
The credulous get things sent to believe — trust is the door the swindle knocks at.
The wealth-flaunting streak — an itch to display one's money that no pocket can contain.
Long hair and bell-bottoms — the disapproving label for 1970s street fashion and its wearers.
Temple-hair strands short and long — we could not marry, so I will love you a thousand years — the vow of the unwed.
I’m ... years old.
I have ... children.
I have a partner.
I’m married.
I have a question
I’m a widow — said by a woman whose husband has died.
I’m a widower — said by a man whose wife has died.
I’m thirsty — the everyday way to say you need a drink.
I don't know.
I don’t have any children.
I don’t understand.
I am Vietnamese
I work part-time or full-time.
I freelance.
I work at...; I work for...
I work from home.
I’m retired.
I was born in...
I think, therefore I am
I live in...
I’m unemployed.
I think therefore I am