Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Honor Quotes

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

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

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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

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I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

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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 higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

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

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

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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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Honor is the greatest poet.

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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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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?

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