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.
451.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
452.
Generous commerce binds
The round of nations in a golden chain.
Seasons, Summer, line 138
453. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro’ pain.
Love in a Riddle (Iphis), Act III, Scene II
454. He lives long that lives well.
Holy and Profane States. Holy State,
The Good Child
455. Woe to the crown that doth the cowl obey!
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt I, XXIX
456. Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and there is nothing so evil but what may be converted to purposes of good.
The Broad Stone of Honour. Godefridus, XII