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• Only when a tree has fallen can you take measure of it. It is the same with a man.
• Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit rattling from the tree to the ground
  but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of truth -- that requires a heroism which is transcendent....
• From a fallen tree, all make kindling. -- Spanish proverb
• From a fallen tree, all make kindling. Spanish Proverb
• A tree is best measured when it is down.
• They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree. -- Old Testament -- Micah iv, 4
• He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
• Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves. Slovakian Proverb