The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1.
Friendship’s like musick; two strings tun’d alike,
Will both stirre; though only one you strike.
Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
Job Militant, Sec 7, Med. 7
2.
Sweet are the uses of adversity ;
Which like the toad ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
As You Like It (Duke Senior), Act II, Scene I
3. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. X
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