Proverbial Wisdom

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

217. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Silas Marner (Nancy), Chap. XVIII

218. Faint heart faire lady ne’er could win.

Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)

Brittain’s Ida, Can. V, St. I

219. There swims no goose so grey, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

The Wife of Bath, line 98

220. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)

Ethical Philosophy

221. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

222. A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Anatomy of Melancholy, Part I, Section II, Member IV