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.
631. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435
632. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3
633. Nipt in the bud.
The Temple. The Church: Employment.
634.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
635. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’
636. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.
Letter to his Son, 29th January, 1748