Proverbial Wisdom

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

391. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Excessive grief the enemy to the living.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

All’s Well that Ends Well (Lafeu), Act I, Scene I

392. We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk I, Chap. V

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

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

The Ghost, Bk IV, line 1296

394. Dissensions like small streams are first begun;
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run.

Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)

The Dispensary, Can. III, line 184

395. It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide, Book III, line 764

396. Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Bible

Proverbs 23:9