Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.

Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.

1. Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, Pt III, line 574

2. Nipt in the bud.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Temple. The Church: Employment.

3. Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Civil War, Bk VI, XIV

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