Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
55. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.
Life of Johnson
56. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI
57.
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Old Mortality, Ch. XXXIV
58. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I
59. Posterity, that high court of appeal which is never tired of eulogising its own justice and discernment.
Essay on Machiavelli
60. Nobody can deny but that religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.
Letter to the Countess of Bute, 23rd June, 1754