Proverbial Wisdom

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

691. Power is the grim idol that the world adores.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Political Essays. On the Connexion between
Toad-Eaters and Tyrants

692. Never gallop Pegasus to death.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

To Bolingbroke, Bk I, Ep. I, 14

693. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III

694. It is too late to shutte the stable door when the steede is stolne.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit

695. Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

Gotham, line 107

696. How much lies in laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. V