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• Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Faith, Victory, Looks

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life Is Short, Men, Immortality

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Autumn, Men

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• To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

  Aristotle

  Suicide, Men, Order

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

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• I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Enemy, Citizens, Adopted

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.332, Univ of California Press

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• No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life.
  [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]

  Sallust

  Life, Children, Parent

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• Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Pain, Lying, People

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.245, Penguin

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• The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.

  Criss Jami

  Sacrifice, Self, Kind

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

  Michael Dowd

  Humanity, World, Way

  "Ecology Is the New Theology" by Michael Dowd, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Genius, Firsts, Pariahs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

  Peter Criss

  Running, Young Generation, People

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• Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

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• There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

  Judd Apatow

  Baby, Thinking, People

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• You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

  James Carville

  Pieces, Hills, Democrat

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• The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

  Jon Meacham

  Political, Way, Path

  "Why Obama Owns bin Laden" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 30, 2012.

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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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• Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Literature, Coats

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.320

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• Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

  Gabe Paul

  Men, Honorable Man, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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