Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
worth
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
worth revenge
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.
rights worth
What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.
effort worth
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
worth posterity
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
places worth
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
worth luxury
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
effort worth duty
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
worth deeds
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there.. Watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years.. Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
places worth merit
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
choice worth
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