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.
583.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III
584.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.
Venus and Adonis, 96
585.
To follow foolish precedents and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Tirocinium
586. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3
587.
’Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.
Timon of Athens (Timon), Act I, Scene I
588. He that will use all winds, must shift his sail.
The Faithful Shepherdess (Chloe), Act III,
Scene III