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.
577. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Emblems, Bk II
578.
Reputation is what men and women think of us.
Character is what God and angels know of us.
579.
It is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act II, Scene II
580.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
The Farewell, line 27
581. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Science and Culture,
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species
582.
Pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness.
Poems Written in Youth, VII