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.
133.
What’s one man’s poison, signor,
Is another’s meat or drink.
Love’s Cure (Piorato), Act III, Scene II
134.
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Essay on Criticism, II, line 215
135.
Genius, like all heavenly light,
Can blast as well as bless the sight.
Stanzas to the Author of Mont Blanc
136.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
137.
Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master’s hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim; —
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388
138. A friend ought to shun no pain, to stand his friend in stead.
Damon and Pithias (Carisophus)