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. Two heads are better than one.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. IX
308.
Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.
The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines
309. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.
Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle
310. Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Essay on Criticism, Pt III, line 574
311. 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
312. Friends are not so easily made as kept.
Maxims of State, XII