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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?

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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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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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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Worth Quotes,
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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.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Worth Quotes,
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I care not twopence.

I care not twopence.

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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.]

by Augustus Caesar Found in: Worth Quotes,
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

by David Letterman 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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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.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Worth Quotes,
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