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.
85.
A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere.
Romaunt of the Rose, line 2737
86. Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Areopagitica
87.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
88. He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Essays of Elia, All Fools’ Day
89. ’Tis not the fight that crowns but the end.
Hesperides, 341
90.
Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency.
Its hopes go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well.
Better Dead, Ch. III