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.
601.
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
602. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Speech on the Indian Bill. Nov. 1783
603. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
Political Essays, On the Clerical Character
604.
Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 371
605.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
606.
What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?
The Wolf and the Shepherds