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.
1123. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
1124.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Helena), Act II,
Scene I
1125. The more haste the lesse speede.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. II
1126.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III
1127. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love another.
Thoughts on Various Subjects
1128. ‘Orthodoxy, my lord,’ said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, ‘orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.’
Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 372