Proverbial Wisdom

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

589. A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Anatomy of Melancholy, Part I, Section II, Member IV

590. Do the duty that lies nearest thee; which thou knowest to be a duty. The second duty will already become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk II, Ch. IX

591. 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

592. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee;
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XL

593. He who at fifty is a fool,
Is far too stubborn grown for school.

Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788)

Visions in Verse, Slander

594. To bear is to conquer our fate.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire