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.
463. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Essay V, Of Adversity
464.
The first act’s doubtful, but we say
It is the last commends the play.
Hesperides, 225
465. They only have lived long, who have lived virtuously.
Pizarro (Alonzo), Act IV, Scene I
466. More childish valourous than manly wise.
Tamburlaine the Great, Pt II (Calyphas), Act IV,
Scene I
467.
Sweet tastes have sour closes;
And he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Emblems, Bk I, No. 7
468. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V