Proverbial Wisdom

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

223. Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot long supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 306

224. Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar

225. ’Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Timon of Athens (Timon), Act I, Scene I

226. The hastie man never wanteth woe.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II

227. A penny for your thought.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit

228. Maken vertue of necessite.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Knight’s Tale, line 3044