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.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

(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.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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.]

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.