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Quotes about Worth


When I am dead, no pageant train
Shall waste their sorrows at my bier,
Nor worthless pomp of homage vain
Stain it with hypocritic tear.

Edward Everett

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Thomas Carlyle

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,
Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when
The world was worthy of such men.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The growing drama has outgrown such toys
Of simulated stature, face, and speech:
It also peradventure may outgrow
The simulation of the painted scene,
Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume,
And take for a worthier stage the soul itself,
Its shifting fancies and celestial lights,
With all its grand orchestral silences
To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

Robert Browning

A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell

In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?

James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Time may restore us in his course
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force;
But where will Europe's latter hour
Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold

One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

But I account it worth
All pangs of fair hopes crost--
All loves and honors lost,--
To gain the heavens, at cost
Of losing earth.

Theodore Tilton

Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As there is wrong to right.

Alfred Austin

So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

Robert William Buchanan

A brave endeavor
To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
Is better than life with love forever
And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

James Jeffrey Roche

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Publius Syrus

Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."

Plutarch

Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"

Plutarch

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Marcus Aurelius

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

François Rabelaisc

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The labourer is worthy of his hire.

New Testament

Of whom the world was not worthy.

New Testament

"But, Rome, 'tis alone, with awful sway, to rule Mankind; and make the world obey; Disposing peace, and War, thy own Majestick Way. To tame the Proud, the fetter'd Slave to free; These are Imperial Arts, and worthy thee." -Anchises to Aeneas in the Underworld

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