Proverbial Wisdom

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

379. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

The Schoolmaster

380. Oh! what a crowded world one moment may contain!

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Last Constantine, LIX

381. Our deeds still travel with us from afar,
And what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Middlemarch, Ch. LXX, head lines

382. Some bookes are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay L, Of Studies

383. Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

On Roscommon’s Translation of De Arte Poetica

384. Those who believe a thing make others believe most.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations, Peter Leopold and
President Du Patey