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.
541. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I
542.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
543. Necessity never made a good bargain.
Poor Richard’s Almanac
544.
Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.
Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV
545.
For when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.
Queen Mab, II
546.
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.
The Village Blacksmith