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• I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.

  Hannibal

  War, Yield, Empires

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• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

  Livy

  Fall, Desire, Favors

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book IV, section 57,

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• Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

  Blaise Pascal

  Speak, Teach, Wells

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section I: Thoughts on Mind and Style), 1669.

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• I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people…. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Believe, Russia, People

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• From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, War, Home

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• I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners

  Regina Spektor

  Fighting, Kissing, Causes

  Song: Your Honor, Album: Soviet Kitsch

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• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Rights

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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• The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

  Robert E. Lee

  Character, Past, Men

  "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.

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• It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Book, Three

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• Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Careers, Champion, Records

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• It’s an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life.

  Juan Luis Guerra

  Children, Happy Life, Opportunity

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• Fight only in direst need
  Not for lust or petty greed
  Honor those that do give birth
  Respect them well for their full worth

  Anne McCaffrey

  Fighting, Giving, Greed

  Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey (2012). “Dragon Harper”, p.104, Random House

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• In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Accepting, Giver

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• Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Women, Eye, Law

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• You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are essentially without morality. In your system of life we must forever appear graceless; to us you must forever appear godless.

  Maurice Samuel

  Forever, Way, Morality

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• You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

  Mira Grant

  Challenges, Criticism, Sometimes

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• We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Names, Life Is

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• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

  William Faulkner

  Teaching, Heart, Sacrifice

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hurt, Helping, Corruption

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Essence, Honor And Respect

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.30, Best Books on

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• Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Pieces, Magnificence

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.132, Harmony

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• To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

  William Cowper

  Get Well, Recovery, Keys

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

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• Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Giving, Goodness

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

  John Ashcroft

  Government, Scary, Would Be

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