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The days follow each other and are not alike.
↗Meaning: Days arrive in succession without being identical. Attend to the circumstances of the present day rather than assuming yesterday’s experience is a complete guide.
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Observation.
Attending to what can be witnessed while separating perception, inference and reports from others. These editorial selections value direct checks without treating appearances or one observer’s memory as conclusive evidence. Connections follow agent-reviewed meanings, rather than source word matching. Reviewed editorial meanings may also connect entries to this topic; those assignments are labelled separately from word matching.
02Undated
The most covered fire is always the most glowing.
↗Meaning: Something concealed can retain considerable intensity. The covered fire cautions against assuming a quiet surface reveals the strength of what lies beneath, without making hidden feelings a certainty.
03Undated
Where you think there is bacon, there are not even hooks for it.
↗Meaning: An expected benefit may have no real basis. The missing bacon hooks make the disappointment sharper: check what supports a promising expectation before assuming the reward is available.
04Undated
To him that watches, everything is revealed.
↗Meaning: Sustained attention can reveal things missed by a passing glance. Watching is valued as a way to learn, while the word everything remains an exaggeration rather than a promise of complete knowledge.
05Undated
Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain.
↗Meaning: What is visible now may not show all that someone has available. The speaker’s other coat challenges a conclusion drawn from the single garment an observer can see.