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.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
2.
What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?
James Beattie (1768-1790)
The Wolf and the Shepherds
3. He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903)
Guesses at Truth, Vol. II, p. 213
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