Proverbial Wisdom

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

643. For when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Queen Mab, II

644. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III

645. That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I

646. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

647. Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar

648. A heavy purse makes a light heart

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

The New Inn (Host), Act I, Scene I