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.
331. Example is the lesson that all men can read.
Education, Can. I, LXXXI
332. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when impatience companions her.
The Ethics of the Dust, The Crystal Orders
333. How much lies in laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.
Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. V
334. Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and there is nothing so evil but what may be converted to purposes of good.
The Broad Stone of Honour. Godefridus, XII
335. Those who have endeavoured to teach to die well, have taught few to die willingly.
Letter to Mr Jos. Baretti, 10th June, 1761
336.
Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy,
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 763