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HONOr quotes
Honor's a sacred tie,—the noble mind's distinguishing perfection, that aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, and imitates her actions, where she is not.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage.—It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.
The chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Honor is unstable, and seldom netthe same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are of all beings the most subject to change.
Honor is most capricious in her rewards.—She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house to build our monument.
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
Honor is not a matter of any man's calling merely, but rather of his own actions in it.
Hare, August W.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies.
That nation is worthless that will not, with pleasure, venture all for its honor.
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; take honor from me and my life is done.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offensive soul alive.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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