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.
307. If thou wilt go seek for a thief, no wonder if thou be robbed.
Christian Ethics
308.
He, with lib’ral and enlarged mind,
Who loves his country, cannot hate mankind.
The Farewell, line 301
309.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
310. Look ere ye leape.
Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.
311.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy
To kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery?
Henry VI, Pt III (King Henry), Act II, Scene V
312. The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.