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.
697.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
698. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Sentimental Journey
699. 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
700. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.
Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42
701.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke,
Submits his neck unto a second yoke.
Hesperides, 42
702. Nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn.
Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Sect I,
Mem. II, Subs. I