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.
211. There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth.
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.
Essay on Poetry
213. What reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 42
214. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.
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.
Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388
216. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The Wealth of Nations, Bk V, Pt III, Art. III