Proverbial Wisdom

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

133. Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Success

134. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Emblems, Bk II

135. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3

136. There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Letter to Quincy, 11th Sept., 1773

137. If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and William Rowley (?1585-1626)

The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I

138. Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline (Belarius), Act III, Scene VI