Proverbial Wisdom

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

355. ’Tis good in every cause, you know,
To have two strings unto our bow.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

The Ghost, Bk IV, line 1296

356. Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

Letters on the Regicide Peace, III, 1797

357. Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

Shakerley Marmion (1603-1639)

Holland’s Leaguer (Philautus), Act V, Scene I

358. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Silas Marner (Nancy), Chap. XVIII

359. The simplest pleasures must welcome be
When a friendly hand prepares them.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair

360. Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume (1711-1776)

Essay XII: Of Civil Liberty