Proverbial Wisdom

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

175. Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220

176. Men’s behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free for exercise or motion.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay LII, Of Ceremonies and Respects

177. Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63

178. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 20

179. He’s truly valiant, that can wisely suffer
The worst that men can breathe.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Timon of Athens (First Senator), Act III, Scene V

180. A man may cry Church! Church! at ev’ry word.
With no more piety than other people —
A daw’s not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.