Proverbial Wisdom

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

19. Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.

Peter Pindar (1738-1819)

Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI

20. Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, Ep III, line 24

21. Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o’er the hearts of the free.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel

22. What though youth gave love and roses.
Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Spring and Autumn

23. Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Meditationes Sacra, De Haeresibus

24. There is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

History