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In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
