Proverbial Wisdom

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

307. Prevention is better than cure.

Old Proverb

308. He is not worthy of the honey-comb,
Who shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

Anonymous (1595)

Locrine (Hubba), Act III, Scene II

309. The greatest clerks ben not the wisest men.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Miller’s Tale

310. These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)

The Man of Honour

311. Courage scorns the death it cannot shun.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

The Conquest of Granada, Pt II (Almanzar), Act IV, Scene II

312. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II