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.
517. The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
As You Like It (Rosalind), Act III., Scene V.
518.
What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.
A Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Act III, Scene II
519.
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
520. Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
The Rambler, No. 64
521.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Essay on Man
522. In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.
The Growth of Freedom in the
Balkan Peninsula, p. 127