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.
697.
Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.
Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101
698. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.
Life of Johnson
699.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Helena), Act II,
Scene I
700.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy;
And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right, to save with pity.
The Lover’s Progress (Lisander), Act III., Scene III.
701.
One murder made a villain;
Millions a hero. Princes were privileg’d
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Death, line 155 (speaking of how war came into the world)
702. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Thoughts on Various Subjects