"Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do."
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"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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"A very honest woman but something given to lie"
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"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
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"That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty."
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"For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar."
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"Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?"
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"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind"
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"To be direct and honest is not safe."
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"Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth."
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"In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust."
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"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."
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"Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony."
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"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware."
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"In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity."
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"These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest."
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"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion."
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"The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before."
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"Veracity is the heart of morality."
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"This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force."
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