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.
289.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers
The grave in which the past is laid.
The Penitent
290.
The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV, Scene I
291. Nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn.
Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Sect I,
Mem. II, Subs. I
292.
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes:
Some falls are means the happier to arise.
Cymbeline (Lucius), Act IV, Scene II
293.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And ev’ry grin, so merry draws one out.
Expostulatory Odes, XV
294.
’Tis not what man Does which exalts him,
But what man Would do!
Saul, XVIII