Proverbial Wisdom

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

1321. What though youth gave love and roses.
Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Spring and Autumn

1322. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

Christian Morals, Pt I, XXXIV

1323. For ’tis not wise to be severe.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Epilogue, II

1324. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V

1325. Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

Horace Smith (1779-1849)

Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV

1326. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III