Proverbial Wisdom

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

241. In fair virtue’s heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

242. What cannot be eschew’d, must be embrac’d.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Merry Wives of Windsor (Page), Act V, Scene V

243. These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)

The Man of Honour

244. Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges.

George Chapman (1559-1634)

Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I

245. Sweet are the uses of adversity ;
Which like the toad ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It (Duke Senior), Act II, Scene I

246. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Science and Culture.
On Elementary Instruction in Physiology.