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.
949. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp.
Lacon, V
950. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Essay L, On Studies
951. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
Epistle to Hogarth, line 52
952. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.
Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42
953.
Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.
Hesperides, 761.
954.
That man that hath a tongue I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III, Scene I