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. Remorse begets reform.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

The Task, Bk V, line 618

2. Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)

3. One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Old Mortality, Ch. XXXIV

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