Resolve that boils fast like a kettle cools fast like one.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 1
Resolve that boils fast like a kettle cools fast like one.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, Book 1
The source
"Resolve that boils fast like a kettle cools fast like one." Yamamoto Tsunetomo said it in Hagakure, Book 1. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
"藥罐道心にて、さめ易き事あり"Original Japanese, Hagakure, Book 1. Japanese: Hagakure, vol. 1 (1937 printing), NDL digital text.
Who said it
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719). Samurai turned monk whose spoken reflections were written down as Hagakure, Hidden by Leaves.
Questions
- Who said "Resolve that boils fast like a kettle cools fast like one."?
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719). Source: Hagakure, Book 1.
- What is the original Japanese?
- 藥罐道心にて、さめ易き事あり. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
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