Proverbial Wisdom

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

217. Heaven forfend that vengeance e’er should strike,
Ere justice doomed the blow.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Fall of Robespierre, Act II

218. Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Lives of the Poets, Cowley

219. Veracity is the heart of morality.

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Science and Culture,
Universities Actual and Ideal

220. He is not worthy of the honey-comb,
Who shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

Anonymous (1595)

Locrine (Hubba), Act III, Scene II

221. ’Tis easier to advise ‘bear up,’ than bear.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Balaustion’s Adventure

222. The colt that’s back’d and burden’d being young, Loseth his pride, and never waxeth strong.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Venus and Adonis, St. 70