![IMAGE: Great [Mighty/Tall] oaks from little [tiny] acorns grow.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/oak-275287_640.jpg)
樫の大木も始まりは小さなどんぐり。 - ジェフリー・チョーサー (1343頃 - 1400): 『トロイラスとクリセイデ』
/ (小さなことから偉業となり得る)
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Great oaks from little acorns grow.[(ME.) As an ook cometh of a litel spyr.] - Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343 - 1400): Troilus and Criseyde
/ Mighty [Tall] oaks from tiny acorns grow.
/ (Great things may come from small beginnings.)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur. [Once-in-a-lifetime encounter.] / Opportunity knocks but once. [Opportunity knocks only once.] / Opportunity seldom knocks twice.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tea-680540_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: A long life hath long miseries. [A long life has long miseries.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/grief-927099_640-100x72.jpg)