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.
265. There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth.
A Soul’s Tragedy , Act II
266. Reading is seeing by proxy.
The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV
267.
Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought,
But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Letter X. To Congreve, on the Double Dealer
268. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V
269. He who wears his heart on his sleeve, will often have to lament that daws peck at it.
Essay on Schiller
270.
Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.
Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63