Proverbial Wisdom

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

85. A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Romaunt of the Rose, line 2737

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

John Milton (1608-1674)

Areopagitica

87. Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393

88. He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Essays of Elia, All Fools’ Day

89. ’Tis not the fight that crowns but the end.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 341

90. Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency.
Its hopes go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (1860-1937)

Better Dead, Ch. III