Proverbial Wisdom

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

679. Necessity does the work of courage.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Chap. LXVII

680. A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, II, line 215

681. And those who live as models for the mass,
Are singly of more value than they all.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Luria (Tiburzio), Act V

682. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Science and Culture,
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species

683. He may love riches that wanteth them, as much as he that hath them.

Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Christian Ethics.

684. In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk VI, Can. I, St. 41