Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Honor Quotes, Crowds Quotes

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

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What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

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The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

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Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

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He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

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The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

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The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

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We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

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Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

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