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.
The first act’s doubtful, but we say
It is the last commends the play.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 225
2. Do the duty that lies nearest thee; which thou knowest to be a duty. The second duty will already become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Sartor Resartus, Bk II, Ch. IX
3. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Silas Marner, Ch. XII
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