Proverbial Wisdom

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

691. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents

692. Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Luria (Braccio), Act I.

693. To judge wisely I suppose we must know how things appear to the unwise.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Daniel Deronda, Bk IV, Chap. XXIX

694. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

695. More vacant pulpits would more converts make.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

The Hind and the Panther, Pt III, line 182

696. Small things make base men proud.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act IV, Scene I