Proverbial Wisdom

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

151. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II

152. Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Caesar), Act II, Scene II

153. Do the duty that lies nearest thee; which thou knowest to be a duty. The second duty will already become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk II, Ch. IX

154. He that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Satire upon Human Learning, Pt I, line 65

155. 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

156. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42