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.
541. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Reflections on the Revolution in France
542.
Man is a creature of a wilful head,
And hardly driven is, but eas’ly led.
The Queen’s Arcadia (Ergastus), Act IV, Scene V
543. He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
The Stones of Venice, Infidelitas, §99.
544. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
The Idler, No. 70
545. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
546. Necessity is the mother of invention.