The Seaside Travelers
Aesop Fable: The Seaside Travelers
Some travelers, journeying along the seashore, climbed
to the summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw
in the distance what they thought was a large ship. They
waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as
the object on which they looked was driven nearer to shore
by the wind, they found that it could at the most be a
small boat, and not a ship.
When however it reached the
beach, they discovered that it was only a large bunch of
sticks, and one of them said to his companions, "We have
waited for no purpose, for after all there is nothing to see
but a load of wood."
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
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