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.
19. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I
20. You must cut your coat according to your cloth.
21. A man’s disposition is never well known till he be crossed.
Advancement of Learning, Bk II
22.
I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.
King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II
23.
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
Poems to National Independence, Pt I, XVI
24. The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
As You Like It (Rosalind), Act III., Scene V.