Proverbial Wisdom

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

709. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies — seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCLXXXVI

710. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.

711. Fight fire with fire, and craft with craft.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Cobbler of Hagenau

712. A custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV

713. Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Hudibras, Pt I, Can. I, line 885

714. He that doth live at home, and learns to know
God and himself, needeth no further go.

Christopher Harvey (1597-1663)

The Synagogue, Travels at Home