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.
403. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’
Amyntas, Prologue
404.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83
405. He’s half absolv’d who has confessed.
Alma, Can. II, line 22
406.
Throw no gift againe the giver’s head;
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
407.
Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.
Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101
408. There is nothing on earth so lowly, but duty giveth it importance; No station so degrading, but it is ennobled by obedience.
Proverbial Philosophy, of Subjection, 155