Proverbial Wisdom

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

661. Love me, love my dog.

Old Proverb

662. He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

The Stones of Venice, Infidelitas, §99.

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Geraint and Enid

664. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V

665. A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems founded on the Affections

666. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.

Old Spanish Proverb

Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles