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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
Riches are for spending; and spending for honour and good actions.
Now the Lord saith,Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
When Iconsider thyheavens,theworkofthy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest himtohave dominionover the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Dead flies causethe ointment of theapothecary tosend forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not a stain in thine honour.
And they were offended inhim.But Jesussaid untothem, A prophet isnot without honour, saveinhis owncountry, and in his own house.
Nay but,O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,Why hastthou made methus? Hathnotthepotter powerover the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.
It is not for me,Your Honour, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence.
I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we were formerly told.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Peace without honour is not onlya disgrace, but, except as a temporary respite, it is a chimera.
He loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honour.
: 'Tis for the honour of England that all Europe should know that we have blockheads of all ages. : I wonder there is not an Act of Parliament to save the credit of the nation, and prohibit the exportation of fools.
Lord Salisburyand myself have brought you peacebut a peace, I hope, with honour. See also Chamberlain 204:63.
She's all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I well this journey be his, and the honoure thereof. 300
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
De toutes choses ne m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est saulve. Of all I had, only honour and life have been spared.
Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e" re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.
Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
Love taught me that your honour did but jest.
I paid the prices of life Standing where Rome immortal heard October's strife, A war poet whose right of honour cuts falsehood like a knife. 375
Bullfighting is the onlyart in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Honour is not the exclusive property of any political party.
I remember that the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,Would he had blotted a thousand: which they thought a malevolent speech[but] I loved themanand do honour hismemory, on thisside idolatry, as much as any.
The exchange rate is onlya statistic, not a symbol of national honor and virility.
We have been too comfortable and too indulgentmany, perhaps, too selfishand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.
I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
He resolved to lead Britain and her fading empire in one last great struggleto arm the nation, not only with weapons but also with the mace of honor, creating in every English breast a soul beneath the ribs of death. 544
Votre plaisir g|"t de s honorer les femmes, et votre honneur tuer les hommes en guerre; qui sont deux points formellement contraires a' la loi de Dieu. Your pleasure lies in dishonouring women and your honour lies in killing men at war; two acts which stand in contradiction to the law of God.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Oh, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, and omnipotence, Is promised to the studious artisan!
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I thinkdo there embrace.
Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all.
All glory, laud and honour To Thee,Redeemer, King, To whom the lips of children Made sweet hosannas ring.
L'honneur, c'est comme les allumettes: c° a ne sert qu'une fois. Honour is like a match, you can use it only once.
Upon my honour, I saw a Madonna Standing in a niche Above the door of the private whore Of the world's worst son of a bitch.
Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade.
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. See Cecil 202:26, Chamberlain 204:63, Disraeli 277:85.
Hail to the Chief who in honour advances! Honoured and bless'd be the evergreen Pine!
If your honour disna ken when ye hae a gude servant, I ken when I hae a gude master, and the deil be in my feet gin I leave ye.
To the Lords of convention 'twas Claver'se who spoke, 'Ere the King's crown shall fall there are crowns to be broke; So let each Cavalier who loves honour and me, Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dundee.'
'Tis no shame for men Of his high birth to love a wench; his honour May privilege more sins. Next to a woman, He loves a running-horse.
The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun, And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
The shackles of an old love straitened him, His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.
I had the honor to be the first non-Jewish professor dismissed from a German university.
The cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that distinction.
Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
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