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.
661. Love me, love my dog.
662. He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
The Stones of Venice, Infidelitas, §99.
663. By the bird’s song ye may learn the nest.
Geraint and Enid
664. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V
665.
A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.
Poems founded on the Affections
666. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.
Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles