Proverbial Wisdom

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

787. None think the great unhappy but the great.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. I

788. None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Alexander’s Feast

789. Friends are as dangerous as enemies.

Thomas Penson De Quincey (1785-1859)

Essay on Schlosser’s Literary History

790. More haste than good speed makes many fare the worse.

Anonymous (1569-1570)

The Marriage of Wit and Science (Wit), Act IV, Sc. I

791. These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)

The Man of Honour

792. Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar