Proverbial Wisdom

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

565. Better not do the deed than weep it done.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

Henry and Emma

566. There is one road
To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye;
Love sometimes leads astray to misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Julian and Maddalo

567. Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II

568. The best elixir is a friend.

William Somerville (1675-1742)

The Hip

569. Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Felix Holt, Ch. XXX

570. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things.

Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.