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.
469. Who bravely dares, must sometimes risk a fall.
Advice (Friend), line 208
470. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.
Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III, Scene VI
471. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I
472. The more haste the lesse speede.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. II
473. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Middlemarch, Bk II, Ch. XVII
474. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
Political Essays, On the Clerical Character