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.
241.
In fair virtue’s heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind.
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
242. What cannot be eschew’d, must be embrac’d.
Merry Wives of Windsor (Page), Act V, Scene V
243.
These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.
The Man of Honour
244. Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges.
Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I
245.
Sweet are the uses of adversity ;
Which like the toad ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
As You Like It (Duke Senior), Act II, Scene I
246. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.