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.
187.
Reputation is what men and women think of us.
Character is what God and angels know of us.
188.
If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.
The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I
189.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
Paradise Lost, Bk IV, line 677
190. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.
Lacon, I
191. Rest springs from strife, and dissonant chords beget Divinest harmonies.
Songs of Two Worlds. Love’s Suicide
192.
Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.
Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI