Proverbial Wisdom

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

475. Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot long supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 306

476. Eke wonder last but nine daies never in town.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide

477. Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk III, line 683

478. A living dog is better than a dead lion.

The Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:12

479. Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV

480. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II