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.
667.
He only judges right who weighs, compares,
And, in the sternest sentence which his voice
Pronounces, ne’er abandons charity.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. II, I
668.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Hesperides, 208
669. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Reflections on the Revolution in France
670.
To be, or not to be, — that is the question —
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I
671. For hyt is commynly sayd ‘Many yes see bettur than one’.
England in the Reign of Henry VIII, Bk I,
Ch. IV, 3 (Pole)
672. He that will not use the rod on his child, his child shall be used as a rod on him.
Holy and Profane States. Holy State,
The Good Parent.