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.
1033.
Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
In Memoriam, CXXXI
1034.
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.
The Village Blacksmith
1035. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Science and Culture,
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species
1036. Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Letters on the Regicide Peace, III, 1797
1037. We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III, Scene II
1038.
I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to.
(Trans. — I hold a mouse's heart not worth a leek
That has but one hole to run to.)
Wife of Bath’s Prologue, line 572