Proverbial Wisdom

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

127. Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomèd mine —
Unweave a rainbow.

John Keats (1795-1821)

Lamia, II

128. Never gallop Pegasus to death.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

To Bolingbroke, Bk I, Ep. I, 14

129. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, I

130. Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

131. A chyld were beter to be unbore, than to be untaught.

Symon Simeonis (c. 1322)

Lessons of Wysedome for all maner Chyldryn, II

132. When ingratitude barbs the dart of injury, the wound has double danger in it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

The School for Scandal (Jos. Surface), Act IV, Scene III