Proverbial Wisdom

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

319. Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton

320. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Essay on the Faculties of the Mind

321. Need hath no law.

William Langland (?1332-?1386)

Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII, line 10

322. It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide, Book III, line 764

323. How happy could I be with either,
Were t’ other dear charmer away!

John Gay (1685-1732)

The Beggars’ Opera (Mac heath sings), Act II,
Scene II

324. There is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

History