Proverbial Wisdom

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

169. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV

170. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III

171. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss (Maggie), Bk VI, Ch. XIV

172. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Traveller, line 386

173. Pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems Written in Youth, VII

174. Let us not burden our remembrance with
An heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Tempest (Prospero), Act V, Scene I