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.
439. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V
440. If thou would’st be happy, learn to please.
Solomon, Bk II, line 266
441.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III
442. Deeds let escape are never to be done.
Sordello, Bk III
443. 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
444.
So many are
The sufferings which no human aid can reach,
It needs must be a duty doubly sweet
To heal the few we can.
Zapolya, Pt II