Proverbial Wisdom

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

493. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

The Bible

Jeremiah 31:29

494. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk IV, line 677

495. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Man

496. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’

Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)

Amyntas, Prologue

497. 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

498. The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy;
And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right, to save with pity.

John Fletcher (1579-1625)

The Lover’s Progress (Lisander), Act III., Scene III.