Proverbial Wisdom

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

127. To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for the observer’s sake.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Moral Essays, Ep. I, line 11

128. We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk I, Chap. V

129. God’s mills grind slow, but sure.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Jacula Prudentum

130. Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 761.

131. ’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, XXVII

132. How were pity understood
Unless by pain?

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Parleyings with Certain People: Francis Farini