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Minot Judson Savage

If any young man expects without faith, without thought, without study, without patient, persevering labor, in the midst of and in spite of discouragement, to attain anything in this world tht is worth attaining, he will simply wake up, by-and-by, and find that he has been playing the part of a fool.

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Albert Schweitzer

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Character | Faith | Work | Worth |

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Julian Stuart

When people have something worth while to live for, they discover that they have enough to live on.

Character | Enough | People | Worth |

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John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

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Zeno of Citium NULL

Virtue is worth seeking for its own sake, and not from hope or fear or any external motive.

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Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

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Francis Atterbury

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.

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George Washington Barrow or Barrows

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart and with lame endeavor.

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John Christian Bovee

A sound discretion is not so much indicted by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.

Discretion | Mistake | Sound | Wisdom |

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Phillips Brooks

Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

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Samuel Butler

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.

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Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

The only popularity worth aspiring after, is the popularity of the heart - the popularity that is won in the bosom of families, and at the side of death beds.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

And all your dreams and other such like folly, to deep oblivion let them be consigned; for they arise but from your melancholy, by which your health is being undermined. A straw for all the meaning you can find in dreams! They aren’t worth a hill of beans, for no one knows what dreaming really means.

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

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

Wisdom | Worth |

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George Dawson

Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading are read.

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