Honour Quotes - Page 17

• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Light, Hands, Building Up

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• Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.

  Ramakrishna

  Mother, Running, Children

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!

  Fanny Burney

  Home, Tired, Hands

  Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) (1820). “Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to the world [by F. Burney].”, p.41

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• Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

  Edward Coke

  Coke, Lord, Distinction

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• Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.

  Robert Henryson

  Wind, Flour

  c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.

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• Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. ... The name of Lilienthal is now among the most honoured, but curiously his own countrymen were the last to recognize the value of his work.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Names, Visionaries

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• Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.

  T. B. Joshua

  Grace, Christ

  "Reflections On Prophet TB Joshua At 46". American Chronicle, August 5, 2009.

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• The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

  John Constable

  Art, Names, First Impression

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

  John Calvin

  Son, Names, Church

  "Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians" by Jean Calvin, William Pringle, Edinburgh, (p. 218), 1854.

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• The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.

  Francis Atterbury

  Christian, Country, Practice

  Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.61

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• It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

  Solomon

  Kings, Matter, Glory

  Proverbs 25:2,

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• Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Mouths, Reputation

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• If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

  William Shakespeare

  War, Honor, Companionship

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

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• Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

  Ovid

  Mean, Love Is, Gold

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• It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Able, Painter, Competence

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.55, 谷月社

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Giving, Miracle

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• The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.

  Robert Genn

  Nature, Autumn, Artist

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• In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Brain, Needs

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• History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.

  Marcus Garvey

  Determination, Race, History

  Marcus Garvey (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920”, p.616, Univ of California Press

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• Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wish, Three, Hundred

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.19, Random House

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• There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Mma, Gains

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• It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Want, Excited

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

  Matt Frewer

  Girl, Teacher, Drama

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