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. There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth.
A Soul’s Tragedy , Act II
416. He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
Guesses at Truth, Vol. II, p. 213
417.
He that strives not to stem his anger’s tide,
Does a wild horse without a bridle ride.
Love’s Last Shift, Act III, Scene I, last lines
418.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d.
Retirement, line 623
419. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.
Lacon, I
420. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
Jeremiah 31:29