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.
109. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Ephesians 4:26
110.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy
To kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery?
Henry VI, Pt III (King Henry), Act II, Scene V
111.
Health is the first good lent to men;
A gentle disposition then;
Next, to be rich by no by-ways;
Lastly, with friends t’ enjoy our days.
Hesperides, 121
112.
Who has not known ill fortune, never knew
Himself or his own virtue.
Alfred, Act I, Scene I
113.
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
114. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
Epistle to Hogarth, line 52