Proverbial Wisdom

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

451. Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Manfred, Act I, Scene I

452. Generous commerce binds
The round of nations in a golden chain.

James Thomson (1700-1748)

Seasons, Summer, line 138

453. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro’ pain.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

Love in a Riddle (Iphis), Act III, Scene II

454. He lives long that lives well.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

Holy and Profane States. Holy State,
The Good Child

455. Woe to the crown that doth the cowl obey!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt I, XXIX

456. Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and there is nothing so evil but what may be converted to purposes of good.

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665)

The Broad Stone of Honour. Godefridus, XII