Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

55. Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.

The Bible

Galatians 6:7

56. O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Marmion, Can. VI, XXX

57. Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Civil War, Bk VI, XIV

58. By the bird’s song ye may learn the nest.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Geraint and Enid

59. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI

60. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V