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.
721.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Paradise Lost, Bk IX, line 171
722.
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
Gotham, line 107
723. History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
On the Study and Use of History, Letter II
724. Like master, like man.
725. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI
726. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Science and Culture,
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species