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.
637.
He who at fifty is a fool,
Is far too stubborn grown for school.
Visions in Verse, Slander
638. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Essay L, On Studies
639. Need hath no law.
Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII, line 10
640. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Poor Richard’s Almanac
641.
Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.
Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)
642. Remembrance oft may start a tear.
Verses written under Violent Grief