Proverbial Wisdom

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

517. The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It (Rosalind), Act III., Scene V.

518. What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

A Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Act III, Scene II

519. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

520. Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Rambler, No. 64

521. 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

522. In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.

James George Cotton Minchin (1851-1933)

The Growth of Freedom in the
Balkan Peninsula, p. 127