Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hate Quotes, Honor Quotes

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

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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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For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

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The due of honor in no point omit.

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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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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

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Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes