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.
787.
War is honourable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak.
Ethwuld (Hereulf), Act I, Scene III
788.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
789.
Better, tho’ difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, tho’ easy, where the end is wo.
Pilgrim’s Progress
790.
What though youth gave love and roses.
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Spring and Autumn
791. When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Ernest Maltravers, Bk VI, Chap. V
792.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers
The grave in which the past is laid.
The Penitent