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.
535.
You must practise
The manners of the time, if you intend
To have favour from it.
The Unnatural Combat (Montreville), Act I, Scene I
536. Virtue’s its own reward.
The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I
537. Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that and ’twill out at the key-hole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV, Scene I
538. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.
The Island, Can. I, VI
539.
Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220
540. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Reflections on the Revolution in France