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.
127. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Lacon: Many Things in Few Words, CCCCXXIV
128. That evil is half cur’d whose cause we know.
Gotham, Bk III, line 632
129. You must cut your coat according to your cloth.
130. For ’tis not wise to be severe.
Epilogue, II
131.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
132. No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
Romola (Pietro Cennini), Bk I, Ch. IX