Proverbial Wisdom

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

697. Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Lady Clara Vere de Vere

698. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768)

Sentimental Journey

699. 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

700. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42

701. He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke,
Submits his neck unto a second yoke.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 42

702. Nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn.

Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Sect I,
Mem. II, Subs. I