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.
157. Each woman is a brief of womankind.
A Wife, line 1
158.
We ne’er can be
Made happy by compulsion.
The Three Graves
159. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.
Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III, Scene VI
160. Labour is but refreshment from repose.
Greenland, Can. 11
161. Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot long supply the absence of good nature.
Spectator, No. 306
162.
He that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.
Satire upon Human Learning, Pt I, line 65