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.
319.
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light.
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton
320. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind
321. Need hath no law.
Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII, line 10
322. It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake.
Troilus and Cresseide, Book III, line 764
323.
How happy could I be with either,
Were t’ other dear charmer away!
The Beggars’ Opera (Mac heath sings), Act II,
Scene II
324. There is properly no history, only biography.
History