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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Form

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

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• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Honor, Assuming

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Giving

  "The Godfather".

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• To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Abiding

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• When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

  Eric Clapton

  Responsibility, Guy, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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