A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
You can't break what's broken already.
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.