For no form of a god, and no fashion
Man has made in his desperate passion,
But is worthy some worship of mine;
Not too hot with a gross belief,
Nor yet too cold with pride,
I will bow me down where my brothers bow,
Humble, but open eyed.
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
How often from the steep
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sole, or responsive each to other's note,
Singing their great Creator?
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
Montaigne—Apology for Raimond Sebond.
(Quoting Apollo.)
| seealso = (See also Burton)
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Together kneeling, night and day,
Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,
And I—at any God's for thine.
Moore—Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers.
Fourth Division. L. 309.
| seealso = (See also Marquis)
So shall they build me altars in their zeal.
Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel :
Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,
Written in blood—and Bigotry may swell
The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from
hell!
Moore—Lalla Rookh. Veiled Prophet of Khoresan.
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this
world. If not religious, he will be superstitious.
If he worship not the true God, he will have his
idols.
Theodore Parker—Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. Essay I. A Lesson for the
Day.
Stoop, boys: this gate
Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows
you
To morning's holy office.
Act III. Sc. 3. L. 2.
Get a prayer-book in your hand,
And stand betwixt two churchmen.
Richard III. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 47.
WORTH
I care not twopence.
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I. L. 463.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III.
Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.
The game is not worth the candle.
French Proverb quoted by Lord ChesterNihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Cicero to Caesar.
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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.)
You will always be fools! We shall never be
gentlemen.
Lord Fisher. In the London Times, June 16,
1919. Quoted by him as a "classic" and as
"the apposite words spoken by. a German
naval officer to his English confrere." Lord
Fisher comments, "On the whole I think I
prefer to be the fool—even as a matter of
business."
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Favorite expression of Marshal Foch. He
is nicknamed "General Deux Sous" from
this. Wellington used " Not worth a twopenny dam." See Wellington—Dispatches.
Vol. I. Letter to his brother, the GovernorGeneral. (The dam was a small Indian coin.)
| seealso = (See also Beaumont)
| topic = Worth
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
Benj. Franklin—The Whistle.
| seealso = (See also King Lear)
| topic = Worth
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Too good for great things and too great for
good.
Fuller—Worthies.
In native worth and honour clad.
Libretto of Haydn's Creation. Adapted from
Milton's Paradise Lost. IV. 289. "Godlike erect, with native honour-clad."
Of whom the world was not worthy.
Hebrews. XL 38.
'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XX. L. 290
| note = Pope's trans.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = London. L. 175.
II est plus facile de parattre digne des emplois
qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que Ton exerce.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position
one does not hold, than of the office which one
fills.
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