Proverbial Wisdom

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

19. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I

20. You must cut your coat according to your cloth.

Old Proverb

21. A man’s disposition is never well known till he be crossed.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Advancement of Learning, Bk II

22. I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II

23. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems to National Independence, Pt I, XVI

24. The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It (Rosalind), Act III., Scene V.