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This was the penn'worth of his thought.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
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.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
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.
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.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.
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.
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?
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
