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.
133. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Success
134. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Emblems, Bk II
135. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3
136. There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Letter to Quincy, 11th Sept., 1773
137.
If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.
The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I
138.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Cymbeline (Belarius), Act III, Scene VI