Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.

Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.

1. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)

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2. Love is like linnen, often chang’d, the sweeter.

Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)

Sicelides (Cosma), Act III., Scene V.

3. Every difficulty yields to the enterprising.

Joseph George Holman (1764-1817)

The Votary of Wealth (Leonard), Act IV., Scene I.

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