Proverbial Wisdom

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

427. We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to us.

Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)

Obiter Dicta, Mr Browning’s Poetry

428. There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, XCVI

429. I have no spur,
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Macbeth (Macbeth), Act I, Scene VII

430. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17

431. The harder match’d, the greater victory.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry VI, Pt III. (King Edward), Act V, Scene I

432. Walls have ears.

William Wycherley (1641-1716)

Love in a Wood (Gripe), Act III., Scene III..