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.
289.
Tir’d Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep,
He, like the world, his ready visit pays
Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes:
Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe,
And lights on lids unsully’d with a tear.
Night Thoughts, Night I, line 1
290.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Essay on Man
291.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And ev’ry grin, so merry draws one out.
Expostulatory Odes, XV
292.
Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.
Civil War, Bk VI, XIV
293. Dull is the jester when the joke’s unkind.
Love of Fame, Sat. II, line 124
294. History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
On the Study and Use of History, Letter II