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.
493.
Alas! we make
A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,
But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves
Look down upon our slumbering acts.
A History of the Lyre
494.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not.
Measure for Measure (Duke), Act I, Scene I
495. Great talkers are never great doers.
Blurt, Master-Constable (Third Lady), Act Scene I
496. He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
Guesses at Truth, Vol. II, p. 213
497. But the tongue can no man tame.
James 3:8
498. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.