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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble read more
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.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more
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.]
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.