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.
169. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I
170.
Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.
Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101
171. One brave deed makes no hero.
The Hero
172.
O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n devotion.
To a Louse
173.
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
174.
Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o’er the hearts of the free.
Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel