Proverbial Wisdom

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

439. Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Discoveries

440. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb

441. In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk VI, Can. I, St. 41

442. Can man be free if woman be a slave?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The Revolt of Islam, II, XLIII

443. One brave deed makes no hero.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

The Hero

444. A patient man’s a pattern for a king.

Thomas Dekker (?1572-1632)

The Honest Whore, Pt II (Duke), last line