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.
715.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Paradise Lost, Bk IX, line 171
716. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI
717.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Epigrams
718.
Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?
The Faerie Queene, Bk IV, Can. I, St. 42
719. It is one thing to shew a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk IV, Ch VII, §11
720.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 23:9