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.
907.
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still —
My country! and while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrain’d to love thee.
The Task, Bk II, line 206
908.
Progress is
The law of life, man is not man as yet.
Paracelsus, V
909.
To be, or not to be, — that is the question —
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I
910.
No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.
The Princess
911.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III
912.
The world agrees,
That he writes well who thinks with ease;
Then he, by sequel logical,
Writes best who never thinks at all.
Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard