Proverbial Wisdom

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

745. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV

746. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

The Island, Can. I, VI

747. Old friends are best.

John Selden (1584-1654)

Table Talk. Friends

748. Friendship’s like musick; two strings tun’d alike,
Will both stirre; though only one you strike.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Job Militant, Sec 7, Med. 7

749. 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

750. 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