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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?
Too good for great things and too great for good.
Too good for great things and too great for good.
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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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.]
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
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.
