Proverbial Wisdom

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

163. Second thoughts are best.

Old Proverb

164. So many are
The sufferings which no human aid can reach,
It needs must be a duty doubly sweet
To heal the few we can.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Zapolya, Pt II

165. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV

166. How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke, and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men’s lives.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Richard), Act V, Scene V

167. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the French Revolution

168. Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

Horace Smith (1779-1849)

Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV