Proverbial Wisdom

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

91. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’

92. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene V

93. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Silas Marner, Ch. XII

94. Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V, Scene I

95. Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220

96. Progress is
The law of life, man is not man as yet.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Paracelsus, V