Proverbial Wisdom

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

169. The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220

170. Learning by study must be won,
’Twas ne’er entailed from son to son.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Fable XI, Pt II

171. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Life of Johnson

172. Love stoops, as fondly as he soars.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems of the Fancy, XVIII.

173. Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Civil War, Bk VI, XIV

174. A burthen’d conscience
Will never need a hangman.

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)

Laws of Candy (Cassilane), Act V, Scene I