Proverbial Wisdom

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

721. Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk IX, line 171

722. Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

Gotham, line 107

723. History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)

On the Study and Use of History, Letter II

724. Like master, like man.

Old Proverb

725. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI

726. 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