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. He’s half absolv’d who has confessed.
Alma, Can. II, line 22
266. He who wears his heart on his sleeve, will often have to lament that daws peck at it.
Essay on Schiller
267.
The evil that men do lives after them ;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar (Antony), Act III, Scene II
268. Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Letter to his Son. Dublin Castle, 19th November, 1745
269.
We ne’er can be
Made happy by compulsion.
The Three Graves
270.
A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.
Love’s Labour Lost (Rosaline), Act V, Sc. II