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.
691. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.
On the Present Discontents
692. Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.
Luria (Braccio), Act I.
693. To judge wisely I suppose we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Daniel Deronda, Bk IV, Chap. XXIX
694.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
695. More vacant pulpits would more converts make.
The Hind and the Panther, Pt III, line 182
696. Small things make base men proud.
Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act IV, Scene I