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.
517. One minute gives invention to destroy; what to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
The Double Dealer (Maskwell), Act I, Scene VI
518. Birds of a feather will gather together.
519.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Essay on Criticism, Pt II, line 133
520.
Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought,
But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Letter X. To Congreve, on the Double Dealer
521. What cannot be eschew’d, must be embrac’d.
Merry Wives of Windsor (Page), Act V, Scene V
522.
How were pity understood
Unless by pain?
Parleyings with Certain People: Francis Farini