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 A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
 In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.  
 A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
 In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd. 
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
 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.] 
 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
 That men divine and sacred call;
  For what is worth, read more 
 '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? 
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.
 O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
 When thou art all the better part of me?
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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? 
 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were 
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins read more 
 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.