Proverbial Wisdom

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

607. Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903)

Guesses at Truth

608. Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o’er the hearts of the free.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel

609. Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Luria (Braccio), Act I.

610. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.

Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-?1812)

Thomas and Sally

611. Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry VI, Pt I (Bedford), Act II, Scene II

612. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3