Proverbial Wisdom

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

463. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay V, Of Adversity

464. The first act’s doubtful, but we say
It is the last commends the play.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 225

465. They only have lived long, who have lived virtuously.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Pizarro (Alonzo), Act IV, Scene I

466. More childish valourous than manly wise.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Tamburlaine the Great, Pt II (Calyphas), Act IV,
Scene I

467. Sweet tastes have sour closes;
And he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Emblems, Bk I, No. 7

468. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V