Proverbial Wisdom

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

541. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I

542. Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393

543. Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

544. Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

Horace Smith (1779-1849)

Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV

545. For when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Queen Mab, II

546. Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Village Blacksmith