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.
73.
Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.
A Song for the Ragged Schools
74.
Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.
Chastelar
75. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
The Mill on the Floss (Maggie), Bk VI, Ch. XIV
76.
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse,
Gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
The Country Wife (Alithea), Act III, Scene I
77. Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey.
The Good-Natured Man (Jarvis), Act I
78. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.
Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles