Proverbial Wisdom

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

67. True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83

68. Love stoops, as fondly as he soars.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems of the Fancy, XVIII.

69. Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines

70. Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63

71. Better, tho’ difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, tho’ easy, where the end is wo.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress

72. Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Areopagitica