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.
553. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Silas Marner, Ch. XII
554. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.
Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II
555. They only babble who practise not reflection.
Pizarro (Elvira), Act I, Scene I
556. Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.
Davideis, Bk III, line 205
557. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?
What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II
558.
I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.
King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II