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.
97. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
98. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’
99. Beauty is but skin deep.
100.
One murder made a villain;
Millions a hero. Princes were privileg’d
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Death, line 155 (speaking of how war came into the world)
101. Language is the dress of thought.
Lives of the Poets, Cowley
102.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia’s Revels (Arete), Act III, Scene II