Proverbial Wisdom

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

241. Maken vertue of necessite.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Knight’s Tale, line 3044

242. Man is a creature of a wilful head,
And hardly driven is, but eas’ly led.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

The Queen’s Arcadia (Ergastus), Act IV, Scene V

243. One minute gives invention to destroy; what to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

The Double Dealer (Maskwell), Act I, Scene VI

244. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

The Bible

Ephesians 4:26

245. Oh! what a crowded world one moment may contain!

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Last Constantine, LIX

246. He who wears his heart on his sleeve, will often have to lament that daws peck at it.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Essay on Schiller