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.
487. A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures; and talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love.
Essay XXVII, Of Friendship.
488.
Throw no gift againe the giver’s head;
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
489.
Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?
The Faerie Queene, Bk IV, Can. I, St. 42
490.
And those who live as models for the mass,
Are singly of more value than they all.
Luria (Tiburzio), Act V
491.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III
492. Music, the mosaic of the air.
Music’s Empire, 17