Proverbial Wisdom

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

163. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Felix Holt, Ch. XIII

164. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk II, Ch. II

165. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents

166. Take time by the forelock.

Old Proverb

167. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Letter to Comitess of Bute.

168. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The Drummer (Vellum), Act V, Scene I