Honest Man Quotes - Page 8

• Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Men, Gentleman

  "The American Democrat". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 115, 1838.

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• Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Lying, Men

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• Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Honest, Sufferers

  "The Works of Samuel Richardson: With a Sketch of His Life and Writings".

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• If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, Titles, Honest

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• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.74, Heron Dance Press

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Practice, Different

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• Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

  Madame de Stael

  Truth, Men, Liberty

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• It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1907). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777”

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• An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Honest, Sober

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.160

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• The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

  George Washington

  Men, Honest, Praise

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• Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Brain, Crooks

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.78, Courier Dover Publications

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• All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

  C. S. Lewis

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

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• One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Integrity, Sacrifice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

  Arthur Ransome

  Honesty, Book, Men

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• This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Fishing, Rivers

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 8

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• Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Men, Age, Saint

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• When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

  Matthew Hale

  Honesty, Fall, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 371-372), 1922.

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• An honest man is respected by all parties.

  William Hazlitt

  Honesty, Party, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

  Paul Morabito

  Writing, Men, Forever

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Heart, Men, People

  Oliver Cromwell (1901). “Speeches, 1644-1658”

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• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Fighting, Men

  Oliver Cromwell (18??). “Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations”

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• There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

  Aristophanes

  Men, Gold, Honest

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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