Proverbial Wisdom

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

691. It is an ill winde turnes none to good.

Thomas Tusser (1524-1580)

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, No. 13

692. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk IV, line 677

693. Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought,
But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Letter X. To Congreve, on the Double Dealer

694. Better, tho’ difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, tho’ easy, where the end is wo.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress

695. What signifies a few foolish angry words? they don’t break bones, nor give black eyes.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687)

The Militant Couple (Bellair)

696. Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

On Roscommon’s Translation of De Arte Poetica