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    If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

    by Lin-chi Found in Worth Quotes,
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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.]

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

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

by Gaelic Proverb Found in: Worth Quotes,
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: Worth Quotes,
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(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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Worth Quotes,
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Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble read more

Now, good my lord,
Let there be some more test made of my mettle
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamped upon it.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.

by William James Found in: Worth Quotes,
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All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

by Edmund Waller Found in: Worth Quotes,
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

by Harriet Lerner Found in: Worth Quotes,
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