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. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.
Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV
170. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.
Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III
171. 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
172. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The Traveller, line 386
173.
Pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness.
Poems Written in Youth, VII
174.
Let us not burden our remembrance with
An heaviness that’s gone.
The Tempest (Prospero), Act V, Scene I