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.
265. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.
Life of Johnson
266.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
267.
Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind’s leading of the blind.
Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269
268. All is not gold that glisters.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. X
269. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.
The Island, Can. I, VI
270.
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