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A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
Author: William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
Source: Doomes-day--The Fifth Houre
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I care not twopence.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Coxcomb (act V, sc. I)
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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented;
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Author: Bible
Source: Hebrews (ch. XI, v. 37-38)
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'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 463)
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This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
Author: Augustus Caesar
Source: to Caesar
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You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
Author: Lord John Arbutnoth Fisher of Kilverstone
Source: in the London "Times"
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Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
Source: his favorite expression, hence his nickname "General Deux Sous"
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: The Whistle
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Too good for great things and too great for good.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Worthies
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In native worth and honour clad.
Author: Franz Joseph Haydn
Source: Libretto of Creation
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'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 290), (Pope's translation)
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This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: London (l. 175)
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maximes (164)
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An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
Author: Frederic R. Marvin
Source: Companionship of Books (p. 318)
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My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.
[Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.]
Author: Frederic R. Marvin
Source: Companionship of Books (p. 318)
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (epistle IV, 203)
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The game is not worth the candle.
[Fr., Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.]
Author: Proverb
Source: (French), quoted by Lord Chesterfield
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(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
(Albany:) O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Goneril & Albany at IV, ii)
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I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Arthur at II, i)
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Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamped upon it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at I, i)
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O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,
And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Sonnet XXXIX
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It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Tale of a Tub--Dedication
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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: Shakespeare Dead? (ch. III)
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All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Author: Edmund Waller
Source: Miscellanies (I, l. 163)
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Author: David Letterman
Source: None
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An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
Author: Senegalese Proverb
Source: None
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: None
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Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Author: Gypsy Rose Lee
Source: None
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Source: None
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If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
Author: Gaelic Proverb
Source: None
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Author: John D. Rockefeller
Source: None
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Author: Harriet Lerner
Source: None
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One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
Author: Liu Binyan
Source: None
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Author: William James
Source: None
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The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
Author: Lin-chi
Source: None
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