Proverbial Wisdom

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

529. Damn with faint praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Prologue to the Satires

530. Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Success

531. Throw no gift againe the giver’s head;
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI

532. A penny sav’d’s a penny got.

William Somerville (1675-1742)

The Sweet Scented Miser, line 30

533. 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

534. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101