Proverbial Wisdom

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

265. There is truth in falsehood, falsehood in truth.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

A Soul’s Tragedy , Act II

266. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV

267. Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought,
But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Letter X. To Congreve, on the Double Dealer

268. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V

269. 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

270. Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63