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.
169.
The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day.
Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220
170.
Learning by study must be won,
’Twas ne’er entailed from son to son.
Fable XI, Pt II
171. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.
Life of Johnson
172. Love stoops, as fondly as he soars.
Poems of the Fancy, XVIII.
173.
Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.
Civil War, Bk VI, XIV
174.
A burthen’d conscience
Will never need a hangman.
Laws of Candy (Cassilane), Act V, Scene I