Proverbial Wisdom

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

313. Beauties are tyrants, and if they can reign
They have no feeling for their subject’s pain;
Their victim’s anguish gives their charms applause,
And their chief glory is the woe they cause.

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

The Patron

314. Virtue’s its own reward.

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I

315. Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Othello (Iago), Act III, Scene III

316. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII

317. Labour is but refreshment from repose.

James Montgomery (1771-1854)

Greenland, Can. 11

318. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath.

The Bible

Mark 2:27