Proverbial Wisdom

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

169. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I

170. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101

171. One brave deed makes no hero.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

The Hero

172. O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n devotion.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

To a Louse

173. Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Manfred, Act I, Scene I

174. Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o’er the hearts of the free.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel