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.
295. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I
296. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.
Lacon, I
297. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.
Life of Johnson
298.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy
To kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery?
Henry VI, Pt III (King Henry), Act II, Scene V
299. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife.
300.
It follows not, because
The hair is rough, the dog’s a savage one.
The Daughter (Norris), Act I, Scene I