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Words of Wisdom

8/28/2012

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A Tale of Temper

There was once a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discover it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence…

Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone from the fence. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said “You have done well, my son,   look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there.

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are a very rare jewel indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend you an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.

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ann-marie
10/8/2012 03:29:19 am

This is so true! if only more people acknowledge this, the world would be a better place.

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10/2/2013 09:48:02 am

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

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