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• A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

  Confucius

  Men, Honorable Man, Doe

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• Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.

  Jim Rohn

  Commitment, Love Is, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 11, 2013

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• It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

  George Washington

  Military, Night, Navy

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Objects

  The American Crisis, 21 Mar. 1778

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• A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

  Suzy Kassem

  Humility, Men, Honorable Man

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• The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Reason

  "Welcome to the Monkey House". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.

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• A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Men, Years

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• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Lying, Character

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

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• It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  Petrarch

  Thrones, Merit, Born

  "Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology". Book by Madalyn Aslan, 2003.

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• America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Rights

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.69, Princeton University Press

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• The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Wise, War

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• There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Call Of Duty, Good War

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• When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Criminals, Prison

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• I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

  Don Nickles

  Men, Thinking, Honest

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• Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

  Samuel Smiles

  Progress, Impossible, Duty

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.36

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• Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Affliction, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.112, University of Georgia Press

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• Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Teach, Discretion

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.436

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• I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

  Rooney Mara

  Fighting, Actors, Might

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• The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Desire, Purpose, Way

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• Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

  Xi Jinping

  Beautiful, Dream, Fall

  "Xi Jinping Meets Model Workers". english.cntv.cn. May 01, 2013.

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• In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Real, Book, Giving

  Richard Holt Hutton, Robert H. Tener, Malcolm Woodfield (1989). “A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton”, Bristol Classical Pr

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• We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, Taken, America

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• plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Priorities, Coincidence, Plagiarism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

  Edvard Munch

  Numbers, House, Green

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