Proverbial Wisdom

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

283. Who bravely dares, must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)

Advice (Friend), line 208

284. Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXLV

285. If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and William Rowley (?1585-1626)

The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I

286. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding (1704-1754)

Love in Several Masques, Act IV, Scene II

287. Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Bible

Proverbs 23:9

288. There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair
But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Abencerrage, Can. 1