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.
655. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Essay on Lord Bacon
656. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.
Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III
657.
Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.
Paradise Lost, Bk III, line 683
658.
He’s truly valiant, that can wisely suffer
The worst that men can breathe.
Timon of Athens (First Senator), Act III, Scene V
659.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Paradise Lost, Bk IX, line 171
660.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.
Loss in Delay