Proverbial Wisdom

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

709. What custom hath endear’d
We part with sadly, though we prize it not.

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

Basil (Rosmberg), Act I, Scene II

710. He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903)

Guesses at Truth, Vol. II, p. 213

711. Can man be free if woman be a slave?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The Revolt of Islam, II, XLIII

712. Talkers are no great doers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard III (1st Murderer), Act I, Scene III

713. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Tam o’ Shanter

714. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents