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.
31.
Help refused
Is hindrance sought and found.
Ferishtah’s Fancies, Two Camels
32. A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
The Water Babies, Ch. III
33.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
34.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
On Roscommon’s Translation of De Arte Poetica
35. History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
On the Study and Use of History, Letter II
36.
Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.
Civil War, Bk VI, XIV