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.
91.
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for the observer’s sake.
Moral Essays, Ep. I, line 11
92.
More liberty begets desire of more;
The hunger still increases with the store.
The Hind and the Panther, Pt I, line 519
93. Small things make base men proud.
Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act IV, Scene I
94. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.
Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 20
95. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Essays, State Tamperings with Money and Banks
96.
The first act’s doubtful, but we say
It is the last commends the play.
Hesperides, 225