Proverbial Wisdom

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

433. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

434. That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I

435. Fore-warn’d, fore-arm’d.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The Drummer (Abigail), Act IV, Scene I

436. 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

437. The better wit is, the more dangerous is it.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations. Middleton and Magliabecchi

438. Riches can’t always purchase happiness.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Wedding (Traveller)