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. There’s a new tribunal now
Higher than God’s — the educated man’s!

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

The Ring and the Book, X, line 1977

2. He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.

Old Ballad (1609)

The Baffled Knight, or Blow Away the Morning Dew

3. ’Tis the taught already that profits by teaching.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Christmas Eve, No. IV

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