Proverbial Wisdom

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

601. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

602. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)

Speech on the Indian Bill. Nov. 1783

603. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Political Essays, On the Clerical Character

604. Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 371

605. Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Manfred, Act I, Scene I

606. What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?

James Beattie (1768-1790)

The Wolf and the Shepherds