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.
709. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies — seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Lacon, CCLXXXVI
710. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.
711. Fight fire with fire, and craft with craft.
The Cobbler of Hagenau
712.
A custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
713.
Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.
Hudibras, Pt I, Can. I, line 885
714.
He that doth live at home, and learns to know
God and himself, needeth no further go.
The Synagogue, Travels at Home