Proverbial Wisdom

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

505. Repentance for past crimes is just and easy;
But sin no more’s a task too hard for mortals.

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

The Relapse (Worthy), Act V, Scene IV

506. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Silas Marner, Ch. XII

507. ‘Orthodoxy, my lord,’ said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, ‘orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.’

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 372

508. He that doth live at home, and learns to know
God and himself, needeth no further go.

Christopher Harvey (1597-1663)

The Synagogue, Travels at Home

509. Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Letters

510. Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Saga of King Olaf