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.
205.
Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.
Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)
206. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?
Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II
207. It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
Maxims, 303.
208. The greatest clerks ben not the wisest men.
The Miller’s Tale
209. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.
Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17
210.
How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke, and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men’s lives.
Richard II (Richard), Act V, Scene V