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.

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

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.]

An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.

An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.

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.

In native worth and honour clad.

In native worth and honour clad.

(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.

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?