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Dead on the field of honour.
Author:
Source: None
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The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it
is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in
such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined
education.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Guardian", no. 161
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Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails and impious men bear away,
The post of honor is a private station.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness,
and peril of falling?
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there
is no witness.
[Lat., Turpe quid ausurus, te sine teste time.]
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (III, 7)
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The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (III, 7)
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These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of
the times.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XLIV, v. 7)
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Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never
re-enter it once we are on the outside.
[Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;
On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Satires (X, 167)
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If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1,047)
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Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 397)
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Honor is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I)
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As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honour's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged,
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1,066)
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris,
cogitandum.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (I, 13)
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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut
possit aut conetur rumpere.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: In Verrem (II, 1, 16)
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Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to
have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind.
[Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit
Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCLXVII)
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Honor lies in honest toil.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: in letter accepting presidential nomination, in Stoddard's "Life of Grover Cleveland"
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Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
[Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Polyeucte (IV, 3)
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And all at Worcester but the honour lost.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Astraea Redux
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Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour of his titles.
Author: John Ford
Source: The Lady's Trial (act I, sc. 3, l. 30)
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Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune,
there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is
saved.
[Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de
mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la
vie qui est sauve.]
Author: Francis I (Francois)
Source: to his mother, written in letter given to Viceroy of Naples morning after Pavia
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Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honor shall be mine.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables (pt. II, The Vulture, The Sparrow and other Birds)
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Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.
Author: Thomas Holcroft
Source: The Road to Ruin (act I, sc. 3, l. 235)
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Honour is but an itch in youthful blood
Of doing acts extravagantly good.
Author: Samuel Howard
Source: Indian Queen
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
His cares must still be double to his joys,
In any dignity.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Catiline--His Conspiracy (act III, sc. 1, l. 1)
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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Source: None
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Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.
Author: Nicolas Boileau
Source: None
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
Author: Martha Graham
Source: None
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Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Author: Ben Johnson
Source: None
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: None
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Author: Welsh Proverb
Source: None
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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Author: Jewish Proverb
Source: None
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Author: H.L. Mencken
Source: None
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