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.
619.
O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n devotion.
To a Louse
620.
Your evidence was lame:— proceed:
Come, help your lame dog o’er the stile.
Poems, Upon the Horrid Plot etc. (Whig and Tory)
621. Knowledge is power.
Meditationes Sacra, De Haeresibus
622.
A good man should and must
Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust.
Sejanus (Sabinus), Act IV, Scene III
623. The clothing of our minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of our bodies.
Spectator, No. 75.
624.
The evil that men do lives after them ;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar (Antony), Act III, Scene II