Proverbial Wisdom

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

223. There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, XCVI

224. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, I

225. You may deride my awkward pace,
But slow and steady wins the race.

Robert Lloyd (1733-1764)

Fables. The Hare and the Tortoise

226. Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

Retirement, line 623

227. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Preface to his Dictionary

228. A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse,
Gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Wycherley (1641-1716)

The Country Wife (Alithea), Act III, Scene I