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In native worth and honour clad.
In native worth and honour clad.
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.]
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.]
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
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.
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.
