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.
163. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Felix Holt, Ch. XIII
164. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk II, Ch. II
165. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.
On the Present Discontents
166. Take time by the forelock.
167. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
168. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
The Drummer (Vellum), Act V, Scene I