The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1. The harder match’d, the greater victory.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Henry VI, Pt III. (King Edward), Act V, Scene I
2.
Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master’s hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim; —
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (?1633-1685)
Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388
3.
O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Marmion, Can. VI, XXX
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