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.
379. Fast bind, fast find.
The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Act II, Scene V
380.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
Paradise Lost, Bk IV, line 677
381.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
382.
Let us not burden our remembrance with
An heaviness that’s gone.
The Tempest (Prospero), Act V, Scene I
383.
Beauties are tyrants, and if they can reign
They have no feeling for their subject’s pain;
Their victim’s anguish gives their charms applause,
And their chief glory is the woe they cause.
The Patron
384.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.
Essay on Poetry