Proverbial Wisdom

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

7. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II

8. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17

9. Virtue’s its own reward.

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I

10. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle

11. Liars should have good memories.

Old Proverb

12. Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Saga of King Olaf