Proverbial Wisdom

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

685. I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the
Hounde.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, Euphues to Philautus

686. Your evidence was lame:— proceed:
Come, help your lame dog o’er the stile.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Poems, Upon the Horrid Plot etc. (Whig and Tory)

687. 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

688. All who joy would win
Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. II, St. 172

689. Let’s fear no storm before we feel a show’r.

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

The Baron’s Wars, Bk III, LV

690. Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Saga of King Olaf