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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.

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?

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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