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.
679. Necessity does the work of courage.
Romola, Chap. LXVII
680.
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Essay on Criticism, II, line 215
681.
And those who live as models for the mass,
Are singly of more value than they all.
Luria (Tiburzio), Act V
682. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Science and Culture,
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species
683. He may love riches that wanteth them, as much as he that hath them.
Christian Ethics.
684.
In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue.
Faerie Queene, Bk VI, Can. I, St. 41