Proverbial Wisdom

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

1351. He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Essays of Elia, All Fools’ Day

1352. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Edgar), Act V, Scene III

1353. Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot long supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 306

1354. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

1355. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.

1356. A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged mercury.

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

De Montfort (Rezenvelt), Act III, Scene II