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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

john milton

— 1665   Abdiel to Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.178-81.

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It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing newly captured, as it is for old men to turn gray, or mothers to love their offspring, or heroes to die for something worthier than their lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson

— Crabbed Age and Youth.

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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.


— Book V. (Aurora Leigh (1857))

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Then think I thus: "Sith such repair, So long time war of valiant men, Was all to win a lady fair, Shall I not learn to suffer then? And think my life well spent to be, Serving a worthier wight than she?"

howard, henry, earl of surrey

— "The Lover Comforteth Himself with the Worthiness of his Love", line 19

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A flushed face, white hair and a twinkle in his eye; and this twinkling got him out of scrapes that would have sunk a worthier man without trace.

james bolivar manson

— Kenneth Clark, quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. ISBN 1854372319.

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Folly such as yours, Grac'd with a sword, and worthier of a fan, Has made what enemies could ne'er have done. Our arch of empire, stedfast but for you, A mutilated structure, soon to fall.


— William Cowper, in The Task (1785), Book I, line 770

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And be the Spartan's epitaph on me "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 10.

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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.


— Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIV, Epigram 49.

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