"Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission."
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable."
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"There are no degrees of honesty."
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"Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty."
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"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
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"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."
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"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."
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"Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart."
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
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"What is dignity without honesty?"
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"What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming."
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"Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]"
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"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."
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"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation."
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"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."
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"Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case."
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"He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages."
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"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."
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"Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything"
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"There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it."
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