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.
589.
There’s a new tribunal now
Higher than God’s — the educated man’s!
The Ring and the Book, X, line 1977
590. The true standard of equality is seated in the mind: those who think nobly are noble.
The Maid of the Mill (Lord Ainsworth),
Act II, Scene I
591.
I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the
Hounde.
Euphues, Euphues to Philautus
592. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife.
593. There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Letter to Quincy, 11th Sept., 1773
594. ’Tis not the fight that crowns but the end.
Hesperides, 341