
This aphorism is used as a reminder that one should not stand out too much because doing so will invite the envy of their boss and colleagues. It figuratively means an able person will lose their position once they have served their purpose.

Nor did he speak again of the foul monsters slain by iron arrows shot from an iron bow. Thereafter, he never spoke again of arrows shot out of the sky. "The ultimate profundity of speech is the word withheld, and the ultimate profundity in archery is the arrow spared." In his twilight years, the archer had a revelation. His string sang like unrelenting thunder,Īnd his arrows shone like sun-soaked iron rain.

He once slew monsters and bandits like silvergrass in the wind.Īs he pursued mastery in the discipline of archery,

An ancient bow, as hard as cast iron, that once belonged to a famed archer.
