Proverbial Wisdom

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

553. 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

554. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II

555. They only babble who practise not reflection.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Pizarro (Elvira), Act I, Scene I

556. Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Davideis, Bk III, line 205

557. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II

558. I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II