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.
391.
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Excessive grief the enemy to the living.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Lafeu), Act I, Scene I
392. We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no childhood in it.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk I, Chap. V
393.
’Tis good in every cause, you know,
To have two strings unto our bow.
The Ghost, Bk IV, line 1296
394.
Dissensions like small streams are first begun;
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run.
The Dispensary, Can. III, line 184
395. It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake.
Troilus and Cresseide, Book III, line 764
396.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 23:9