The hawk soars and stretches her wings toward the south. The eagle mount up and makes his nest on high. On the cliff he dwells and remains securely, upon the point of the rock and the stronghold from there he spies out the pray, and its eyes see it afar off.
For a dream comes with much business and painful effort, and a fools voice with many words. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way of the wind, for the old is gone and the new has come.
That path no bird of prey knows and the falcon’s eye has not seen it. The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed over it. The slothful man does not catch his game or roast it once he kills it, but the diligent man gets precious possessions
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