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.
415. Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Letter to J. Boswell, Esq., 1766
416. Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough if you meet her like a man.
Philip, Ch. XIX
417. If Jove stray, who dares say, Jove doth ill ?
Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I
418. To judge wisely I suppose we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Daniel Deronda, Bk IV, Chap. XXIX
419. It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35
420.
O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
Marmion, Can. VI, XXX