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.
223.
Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy,
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 763
224. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Essay V, Of Adversity
225. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.
Thomas and Sally
226.
Things past recovery
Are hardly cured with exclamations.
The Jew of Malta (Barabbas), Act I, Scene II
227.
Friendship’s like musick; two strings tun’d alike,
Will both stirre; though only one you strike.
Job Militant, Sec 7, Med. 7
228. She lookt as butter would not melt in her mouth.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch X