Proverbial Wisdom

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

7. Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Balaustion’s Adventure

8. Second thoughts are best.

Old Proverb

9. Rest springs from strife, and dissonant chords beget Divinest harmonies.

Lewis Morris (1833-1907)

Songs of Two Worlds. Love’s Suicide

10. If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?

Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)

The Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, line 226

11. Handsome is as handsome does.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. I

12. Health is the first good lent to men;
A gentle disposition then;
Next, to be rich by no by-ways;
Lastly, with friends t’ enjoy our days.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 121