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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.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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.
(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
(Albany:) O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which read more
(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
(Albany:) O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.
I care not twopence.
I care not twopence.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.