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.
433.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
434.
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.
Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I
435. Fore-warn’d, fore-arm’d.
The Drummer (Abigail), Act IV, Scene I
436. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?
What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II
437. The better wit is, the more dangerous is it.
Imaginary Conversations. Middleton and Magliabecchi
438. Riches can’t always purchase happiness.
The Wedding (Traveller)