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

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

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
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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.]

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.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

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?

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.]

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

In native worth and honour clad.

In native worth and honour clad.