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.
673. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?
Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II
674. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I
675.
Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.
The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines
676. 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
677. Knowledge is power.
Meditationes Sacra, De Haeresibus
678. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435