"Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers"
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"Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride."
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"Well, honor is the subject of my story."
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"Greatness knows itself."
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"The fewer men, the greater share of honor."
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"If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death."
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"That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers."
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"A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor."
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"Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor."
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"I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have."
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"What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?"
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"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity."
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"If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless."
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"The due of honor in no point omit."
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"Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man."
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"If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance."
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"Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die."
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"Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of"
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"Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best."
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found."
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