Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.

Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.

1. Lernyng wythout vertue ys pernycyouse and pestylent.

Thomas Starkey (?1495-1538)

England in the Reign of Henry VIII, Bk II, Ch. III

2. Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 648

3. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems to National Independence, Pt I, XVI

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