Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Proverbs? Idioms?
Meaning implied in the sentences
Anybody can guess what the writer means in the following sentences?
"Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher."
"The woods would be a very silent place if no bird sang a song."
I did search for the proverb-like sentences in google, but I didn't get any result.
Anybody can help me?
Anybody can guess what the writer means in the following sentences?
"Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher."
"The woods would be a very silent place if no bird sang a song."
I did search for the proverb-like sentences in google, but I didn't get any result.
Anybody can help me?
Top answer
Hi The first is due to Chopin. It means that it is difficult to judge a work of art when it is first produced. However, if you wait patiently then the passage of time, alone, will help you to know whether it is good or bad The second is close to Henry Van ****: - Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best If you can do something that people enjoy, you don't have to be fantastically good at it.
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Hi
The first is due to Chopin. It means that it is difficult to judge a work of art when it is first produced. However, if you wait patiently then the passage of time, alone, will help you to know whether it is good or bad
The second is close to Henry Van ****:
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang
The first is due to Chopin. It means that it is difficult to judge a work of art when it is first produced. However, if you wait patiently then the passage of time, alone, will help you to know whether it is good or bad
The second is close to Henry Van ****:
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang
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