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Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
'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.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn read more
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities!
They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn
breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
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.]
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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.