If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Size 40
Cain, main, pain, vain, fain, rain;
Your shoe-size is 40 and i am about to tell you a story;
But your love is like a fiery land far away.
Dave, cave, wave, pave, lave, nave, save;
Shoe-size 40 in the land of care,
But you must distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
The monitor lizard,
The small lizard,
The large lizard,
The stock and the ostrich;
But upon the perfect laws i rest my mind,
And like the rain in its season.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Everybody knows best where his own shoe pinches.
Every one knows best where the shoe pinches him.
Everyone knows best where his own shoe pinches.
Everyone knows where his own shoe pinches him.
No one knows better where the shoe pinches that he who wears it.
He knows best where the shoe pinches who wears it.
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
quote by Carl Gustav Jung
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Shoe at Roadside
A miscarriage; a little red shoe at roadside;
Keen for action, bidding for attention.
A little shoe that sure has lots of adventures
To tell of its young master;
Of visitations to the supermarket
With daddy when I got lost among
The toys department Tarzan collections,
Of refreshing exercises
In the school grass field
In the first light of morn,
Of trips to the movie when I had
Hugged daddy tight when a horror
Face had appeared,
Of the chase in the park for
The fun of scarrying away the birds.
Tears trickle down my cheeks brought
On by a lost child; the same shoe size!
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
quote by Jim Hightower
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The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
quote by Albert Einstein
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Epoch
The belated moon behind a person's back
and the epitome looks to the infinity
for better or for worse.
He is in between the devil and the deep sea.
The familiar erotic sun eloped with the moon
and in the dark sky where the shoe pinches.
To the poetess Mary Nagy for her kindness.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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