Proverbial Wisdom

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

715. Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

Shakerley Marmion (1603-1639)

Holland’s Leaguer (Philautus), Act V, Scene I

716. Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, CXXXI

717. 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

718. A prophet hath no honour in his own country.

The Bible

John 4:44

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

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

The Baron’s Wars, Bk III, LV

720. Men are valued not for what they are, but what they seem to be.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Money (Sir John Vesey), Act I, Scene I