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.
307. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.
Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles
308. The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin deep saying.
Essays, Personal Beauty
309. Virtue’s its own reward.
The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I
310. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when impatience companions her.
The Ethics of the Dust, The Crystal Orders
311. Mellow nuts have hardest rind.
Lord of the Isles, Can. III, XXL
312. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
Christian Morals, Pt I, XXXIV