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. His heart runs away with his head.
Who Wants a Guinea? (Heartly), Act I, Scene I
212. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Reflections on the Revolution in France
213. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue.
Sejanus (Tiberius), Act I, Scene II
214.
He is as cowardly
That longer fears to live, as he that fears to die.
The Purple Island, Can. X, St. VIII
215.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Epigrams
216.
Pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness.
Poems Written in Youth, VII