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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.]
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.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of read more
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.