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.
At every trifle scorn to take offence,
That always shows great pride or little sense.
Essay on Criticism, line 386
716. Enough is as good as a feast.
Love in a Village (Hawthorne sings), Act III,
Scene I
717. The true standard of equality is seated in the mind: those who think nobly are noble.
The Maid of the Mill (Lord Ainsworth),
Act II, Scene I
718. No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
Romola (Pietro Cennini), Bk I, Ch. IX
719.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers
The grave in which the past is laid.
The Penitent
720. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.
Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17