Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

211. There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

A Soul’s Tragedy , Act II

212. Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721)

Essay on Poetry

213. What reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 42

214. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.

Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-?1812)

Thomas and Sally

215. 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.

Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (?1633-1685)

Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388

216. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

The Wealth of Nations, Bk V, Pt III, Art. III