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.
223.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
In Memoriam, XCVI
224. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.
Lacon, I
225.
You may deride my awkward pace,
But slow and steady wins the race.
Fables. The Hare and the Tortoise
226.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d.
Retirement, line 623
227. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Preface to his Dictionary
228.
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse,
Gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
The Country Wife (Alithea), Act III, Scene I