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.
427. We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to us.
Obiter Dicta, Mr Browning’s Poetry
428.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
In Memoriam, XCVI
429.
I have no spur,
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act I, Scene VII
430. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.
Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17
431. The harder match’d, the greater victory.
Henry VI, Pt III. (King Edward), Act V, Scene I
432. Walls have ears.
Love in a Wood (Gripe), Act III., Scene III..