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Two men went fishing. One was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn’t. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman caught a big fish, he threw it back. The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and finally got tired of seeing the man waste good fish. “Why do you keep throwing back all the big fish you catch?” he asked. The inexperienced fisherman replied, “I only have a small frying pan.” Sometimes, like that fisherman, we throw back the big plans, big dreams, big jobs, big opportunities that God gives us. Our faith is too small. We laugh at that fisherman who didn’t figure out that all he needed was a bigger frying pan, yet how ready are we to increase the size of our faith? Whether it’s a problem or a possibility, God will never give you anything bigger than you can handle. That means we can confidently walk into anything God brings our way. REMEMBER: Stop telling God you’ve got big problems. Tell your problems you’ve got a BIG GOD!

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King Robert Bruce, who .once, ruled over Scotland was a brave and nice man. The King of England wanted to snatch his territory and attacked Scotland. King Robert Bruce was taken unawares and was defeated. He fled away to save his life and took refuge in a cave. One day, as he was thinking of his plight and misfortune, he saw a spider trying to crawl up to its web which was high every time it reached near the web, it fell down. But it did not lose heart and continued its attempts to reach the web. At last it succeeded in reaching the web. King Robert Bruce was inspired by the incident with renewed hopes. He gathered his forces, fought against his enemy and vanquished him. He regained his territory an ruled over it till his death.

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There was a pasture near the edge of a forest. Shepherds of the nearby villages came there with their flocks. While the flocks grazed, the shepherds spent their time playing games. Now, there was a big old tree at the end of the pasture. It had a big hollow but with a narrow opening to get in. The shepherds put their lunch-packets in the hollow. At noon, they took them out and enjoyed their mid-day meals together. One day a hungry fox happened to come that way. He got the flavour of the lunch-packets and followed it to reach the hollow. His belly was sunk inside owing to hunger. So, he was able to get into.the hollow without much difficulty. The fox ate up the contents of all the lunch-packets. His belly puffed up on both sides. So, when he tried to come out of the hollow, he couldn’t. Soon the shepherds came there for their lunch-packets. They found the fox there and gave him a sound beating. Never take a thing far more than your need.

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Have you ever seen a crab walking on land ? It walks as if tilted to one side. Its body is such that it cannot walk straight. And it is a fact that is true of all the crabs on the earth. One day a mother-crab was sitting on the bank of a river. Her young son was playing nearby. The mother was feeling very happy to see him move about. Suddenly the mother noticed one thing. She saw that her son walked tilting his body side-ways—not straight. She felt worried about it and wanted him to walk straight. “You ought to walk straight, not sideways, my son,” advised the mother-crab. “Show me, dear mother, how to walk straight. I shall follow your example,” retorted the young crab. The mother-crab tried her best to walk straight but could not. So, she realized her folly. Never find fault with others.

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Once there lived a man who always boasted of his might, his valour and his feats. He used to tell always how single handed he had fought against a gang of dacoits and made then to take to their heels, how he had killed a loin with his blows and how he had subdued a furious bull. His neighbors considered him to be a cry bold man and they thought that he would save them if sonic dacoits attacked the village. One night, a gang of robbers attacked the village. The villagers sent a message to him to come to help them. The messenger told him about the attack and asked him to come to help. As soon as the boaster heard about the attack of the robbers he fainted. The messenger ran back and told the villagers to face the robbers themselves as the boaster had fainted on hearing about the robbers. After the villagers repulsed the attack they sat down to talk about the conduct of the boaster. An old man who was present there said, There is nothing to amaze at. He is an empty vessel that sounds much.”

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Emi, a king-swan, lived by a lake in a dense forest. He spent his time looking for food and swimming in the clear blue and cool water of the lake. One day as it happens to all who are old, Death came to visit Emi in the guise of an owl. Emi saw the owl and enquired, “Oh wise one, what brings you to this dense forest ? Where do you come from?” The owl replied. “Emi, I am here to meet you whose virtue I have heard of in my land.” “You are welcome, 0 wise one, to stay with me by this beautiful lake as long as you feel like,” said Emi. Thus Emi and the owl became best friends and spent their days together by the beautiful lakeside. Then, one day, the owl addressed Emi, “Dear friend, I must now leave for my home in Lotus Grove. Do pay me a visit whenever you desire.” Saying this the owl left for his homeland. After a few days Emi started feeling the absence of his friend, the owl. He thought to himself, “Now that I have grown old I realize I have not seen any place but this lakeside in this forest. I must see the world before I grow too old to move. I shall visit my friend, the owl, in Lotus Grove to start with. I am missing him terribly.” The next morning, Emi, the king-swan, flew to Lotus Grove to meet the owl. He looked for the owl everywhere but in vain. Soon he saw him in a tree hole. The owl was resting there as owls do in daytime, for all owls are blind by daytime. Emi called out, “dear owl, here I am Emi, your friend. Do come out to meet me.” “Dear Emi, I am glad you have come but I shall meet you at sunset I can only see in the dark,” replied the owl. At sunset the owl and the king-swan met each other and had a hearty meal and took account of their time apart. The weary swan then slept at the foot of the tree. Unknown to the two friends, a caravan of gypsies had camped near by. At the break of dawn, the leader of the gypsies blew a conch-shell to rouse his sleepy friends. The owl replied to the conch-call with a harsh and loud owl-call — a piercing hoot. The owl flew away from its tree hole even as Emi was enjoying a sound sleep. At the inauspicious owl-call the leader ordered the culprit to be shot down by an arrow. An expert archer, who could shoot an arrow at the source of a sound, soon drew and shot an arrow at the tree. The old king-swan who was sleeping there was hit by the arrow. Thus his end came by the inevitable visit of Death in the guise of the owl. Moral : Death has no calendar

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It is the story of a fierce, but grand lion that lived in a thick forest. Once he was sleeping that a louse jumped on him. Thus, it disturbed him in his sleep. The lion got angry and roared (produced a deep loud sound). He was going to kill the mouse. The mouse asked the lion to excuse the satisfied. The liod excised the mouse who was very thankful. Happy and satisfied, it went away from there. One day the lion was waking in the forest. Suddenly he was caught in the hunter’s net. Now he could not walk. He roared loudly. The mouse, which the lion had earlier, heard the roaring and came to him from its hole. It cut the strings of the net which its teeth quite easily. The lion comfortably came out of the net. He thanked the mouse again and again (repeatedly). The lesson of the story is that kindness never goes unrewarded. Or act well and be rewarded well.

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A rich man hired a donkey to take him on a journey. He set out on the donkey’s back and the owner of the donkey followed him. At noon the sun became very hot. So the rich man got down the donkey to repose. As there was no tree for shelter, he sat down in the shadow of the donkey. The owner of the donkey also felt hot and wanted to rest in the shadow of the donkey. So he asked the rich man to move away from the shadow so that he could rest. The rich man said. ‘Why‘ I have hired the donkey and as such I have the right to sit in his shadow. The owner replied.“ Yes, you have hired the donkey but not the shadow.’ They fell out on the point and came to blows soon. Meanwhile the donkey ran away leaving them behind. When they came to senses they repented their mistakes as the owner had lost his donke and the rich man had to travel on foot and both of them had to bear the scorching sun.

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One hot summer day a vernal man hired a ass to circularize him on a journey. He set out on the locomotive in the farewell. He rode the ass patch the driver followed him .-At midday the emotionalism of the sun was so major that he got mastered to acquire repose uncovering no added area of shelter nigh by. he sat in the overloud of the ass. The wood also was some thesis very hot and loved to relief in the ass''s shadowed. So he began to altercate with the beast man. He said, "you score no reactions to the ass''s shadow". "What" said the formative man, "did I not undertake the ass for the whole locomote?" "Yes", said the person of the ass, "you hired the ass but not his shadow".

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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella. She lived with her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. They treated Cinderella very badly. One day, they were invited for a grand ball in the king’s palace. But Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her go. Cinderella was made to sew new party gowns for her stepmother and stepsisters, and curl their hair. They then went to the ball, leaving Cinderella alone at home. Cinderella felt very sad and began to cry. Suddenly, a fairy godmother appeared and said, “Don’t cry, Cinderella! I will send you to the ball!” But Cinderella was sad. She said, “I don’t have a gown to wear for the ball!” The fairy godmother waved her magic wand and changed Cinderella’s old clothes into a beautiful new gown! The fairy godmother then touched Cinderella’s feet with the magic wand. And lo! She had beautiful glass slippers! “How will I go to the grand ball?” asked Cinderella. The fairy godmother found six mice playing near a pumpkin, in the kitchen. She touched them with her magic wand and the mice became four shiny black horses and two coachmen and the pumpkin turned into a golden coach. Cinderella was overjoyed and set off for the ball in the coach drawn by the six black horses. Before leaving. the fairy godmother said, “Cinderella, this magic will only last until midnight! You must reach home by then!” When Cinderella entered the palace, everybody was struck by her beauty. Nobody, not even Cinderella’s stepmother or stepsisters, knew who she really was in her pretty clothes and shoes. The handsome prince also saw her and fell in love with Cinderella. He went to her and asked, “Do you want to dance?” And Cinderella said, “Yes!” The prince danced with her all night and nobody recognized the beautiful dancer. Cinderella was so happy dancing with the prince that she almost forgot what the fairy godmother had said. At the last moment, Cinderella remembered her fairy godmother’s words and she rushed to go home. “Oh! I must go!” she cried and ran out of the palace. One of her glass slippers came off but Cinderella did not turn back for it. She reached home just as the clock struck twelve. Her coach turned back into a pumpkin, the horses into mice and her fine ball gown into rags. Her stepmother and stepsisters reached home shortly after that. They were talking about the beautiful lady who had been dancing with the prince. The prince had fallen in love with Cinderella and wanted to find out who the beautiful girl was, but he did not even know her name. He found the glass slipper that had come off Cinderella’s foot as she ran home. The prince said, “I will find her. The lady whose foot fits this slipper will be the one I marry!” The next day, the prince and his servants took the glass slipper and went to all the houses in the kingdom. They wanted to find the lady whose feet would fit in the slipper. All the women in the kingdom tried the slipper but it would not fit any of them. Cinderella’s stepsisters also tried on the little glass slipper. They tried to squeeze their feet and push hard into the slipper, but the servant was afraid the slipper would break. Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her try the slipper on, but the prince saw her and said, “Let her also try on the slipper!” The slipper fit her perfectly. The prince recognized her from the ball. He married Cinderella and together they lived happily ever after.

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There was a lady who had a little son. The lady was a social worker and always left the son alone o be looked after the servants and went to do social work. The little boy grew up in the absence of maternal love and care and developed some complexes. The mother got alarmed at the delinquency and the freak and referred him to a psychologist, Who, after psychoanalysis, told the mother that the abnormal behavior of her son had developed due to lack of maternal love and care. The mother said. “I am a social worker and get no time to give to my son.” The Psychologist said. “Madam ! I appreciate your love for social work. but you must know that charity begins at home.”

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A dog, water a short rivulet with a opus of meat in his representative, saw his own overshadow reflected in the top thing, and believing it to be another dog who was earning a bigger spell of meat, could not react the want to whelm upon the tempting taste. According, dropping the meat into the irrigate, which was straightaway carried absent by the circulating, he snapped at the overlook, but how high was his vexation to reason that it has disappeared. ''Unhappy creature that I am!" cried he, "in control at the shadower I mortal unsaved the substance."

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Once there lived a rich man in a city, who had a poor cobbler as his neighbour. The cobbler worked hard in the day and sang gleefully late in the night. The rich man got envious of his jollification and one day called him and said, “Poor as you are, you cannot enjoy life as I can, but still you are happier than I. Can you tell inc the reasons for that ?“ The cobbler replied, “Sir, I am poor, no doubt, but I am happy because I have no cares, I spend what I earn and trust God for the future You are rich but have worries about your riches and as such you are unhappier. To test the truth of his statement, the rich man gave the cobbler a bag full gold coins. The cobbler took the bag home and burned it in a room. Since then, the cobbler began to worry about the safety of the money. He could not work whole-heartedly and could not sleep soundly lest the bag was stolen. The worry began to tell upon his health. So he took the bag out and taking it to the rich man, returned it. Saying, “This money has robbed me of my content, serene and placid life. Please take it back so that I may get my lost jollity and jocundity again.” He, thereafter, remained as cheerful and happy as he was before getting the money.

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Formerly there lived a cat in a timberland. He was real rigorous. He killed more animals regular. So the animals were very cowardly of him. One day the animals held a convergency to chance a way to get rid of the lion. An old game said, "I shall do it, you parting it to me." It went to the celebrity and told him that he would get one being daily. The lion conventional the proposition. Succeeding day he went to the lion. The cat was thirsty when he reliable to neglect upon the hare to cat it, the hare said, "Please concentrate to me prototypal. There is other celebrity in the timber. He is uptake the animals of the flora. I can demonstration you that lion". The cat grew enraged at it. We desired to defeat his competitor. He went with the game to the surface. The hare requested him to examine into it. When the celebrity looked in, he saw his own remark in the installation. He took it for other cat. He jumped into the substantially and was drowned. In this way the cunning game found the animals of the set from the celebrity.

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It all happened in the USA some two years ago. Three big businessmen went hand in hand to an air booking office in New York to tickets for London on a fine morning. They had to reach London the same day in the evening to finish a very big business deal that was to bring them a lot of profit. By good luck, as they thought, they got three tickets on a fast Boeing plane flying to London at 1.00 p.m. Now it was 9.00 a.m. and they had to collect some important business papers from their offices in a New York business centre. From the booking office the three businessmen hurried straight to their office in their grand Chevrolet. As they collected their business documents one after another, they got a little late. But, still there was enough time at their disposal, and they drove their car as fast as they could. But, at a road crossing, as God willed it, there was an unusual traffic jam and the car was held up for quite a long time. When they reached the airport, it was too late as the plane had already taken off. They were feeling very sad to lose their business deal. But, to the tremendous and happy surprise of the businessmen, the same plane had been hijacked to an unknown destination by some terrorists as it was on its way to Britain. Now the three businessmen were thanking their stars the next day that they had missed the plane and their business deal rightly ended to their benefit. Missing the plane was in fact a blessing in disguise for them.

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Once upon a time a ship was caught in a violent storm. It wrecked and the waves cast its wrecks on the sands of the shore. Among them was a sailor who lay senseless on the beach. When he came to himself, he cursed the sea. He said, “The sea is a cheat indeed. It attracts men with its cool and calm waters. But once they are in its grips, it turns furious and destroys them.” The sea heard the reproach of the sailor and felt pinched. But it didn’t want to trouble him anymore. So, it came to the sailor in the form of a beautiful damsel. “Who are you, O lovely lady ?” asked the sailor. “I am the sea and am indeed as lovely as you see me now. You are cursing me for the wreck. But it isn’t just.” “What is just then ?” asked the sailor in surprise. “That the wreck was caused by cruel winds that blew into gusts and gales over me and created stormy waves in my calm waters,” argued the sea. The sailor couldn’t but feel sorry.

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Once upon a time a fox was roaming in a forest in search of food. Unfortunately he was caught up in a trap. He tried his best to get free. Heaving to get out of the trap, he was able to do so but lost his tail in the struggle. The fox felt very small. He knew that every fox would laugh at him. He was so sad that he thought of killing himself. But then he said to himself, “It is cowardice to kill oneself. I should do something else.” At last the fox planned to persuade all the foxes to part with their tails. It was sure to divert their attention from his tail less appearance. So, the fox called a meeting of the foxes and advised them to do away with their tails. He said, “They are ugly, heavy and tiresome. We must get rid of them.” But one clever fox said, “Good,sir ! you wouldn’t be so keen to give us that advice, if you were not tail less. Isn’t it ?” Hypocrisy seldom works.