Proverbial Wisdom

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

307. Life has no path so short as to renown !

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

King Arthur, Bk XII, CLXI

308. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Idler, No. 70

309. Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

The Farewell, line 27

310. Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, CXXXI

311. No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

Memoirs, Chap IX

312. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old;
It is the rust we value, not the gold.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Imitations of Horace, Bk II, Ep. I