"There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you."
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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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"This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings."
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"I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence."
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"Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all."
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"It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods."
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"Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor."
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"A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him."
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"If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day."
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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."
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"Honor is a harder master than the law."
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"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
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"The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction."
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"It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor."
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"Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors."
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"Honor, without money, is a mere malady."
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"The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty."
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"A person dishonored is worst than dead."
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"Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind."
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"To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor."
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