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 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. 
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
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.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
 My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.
 [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je read more 
 My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.
 [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.] 
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.
In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.