Proverbial Wisdom

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

463. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.

Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-?1812)

Thomas and Sally

464. There is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

History

465. Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63

466. Grief makes one hour ten.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Bolingbroke), Act I, Scene III

467. Maken vertue of necessite.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Knight’s Tale, line 3044

468. Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines