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.
295.
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy;
But sin no more’s a task too hard for mortals.
The Relapse (Worthy), Act V, Scene IV
296.
Health is the first good lent to men;
A gentle disposition then;
Next, to be rich by no by-ways;
Lastly, with friends t’ enjoy our days.
Hesperides, 121
297. A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
The Water Babies, Ch. III
298.
A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.
Love’s Labour Lost (Rosaline), Act V, Sc. II
299. Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Much Ado about Nothing (Conrade), Act III,
Scene III
300.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land ?
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. VI, I