Proverbial Wisdom

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

1177. Reputation is what men and women think of us.
Character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

1178. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Thoughts on Various Subjects

1179. How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III

1180. Need hath no law.

William Langland (?1332-?1386)

Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII, line 10

1181. Some ease it is hid sorrows to declare.

Francis Davison (fl. 1602)

Sonnet V. A Complaint

1182. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies — seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCLXXXVI