"Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block."
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"I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing."
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"According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame."
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"I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor."
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"Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed."
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"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."
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"As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues."
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"Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty."
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"Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world."
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"When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence."
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"The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle."
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"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."
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"A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ."
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"Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles."
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"This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him."
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"It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor."
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"Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike."
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"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."
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"Whatever your life's work is, do it well."
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"There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless."
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