"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

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"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

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"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Honor,

"The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Honor, Truth, Regret, Life

"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Honor, Courage, Death, Meaning

"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Honor, Forgiveness, Women, Men

"Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor..."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Honor, Violence, Defense, Courage

"And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Honor, Memory, Goodwill, Power

"Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers- past & present."

Eleesha, British Author

Honor, Motherhood, Respect, Gratitude

"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Honor, Conflict, Truth, Courage, Responsibility

"Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

Honor, Death, Courage, Respect

"As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life - especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Honor, Men, Bravery, Pleasure, Beauty

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"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

Education

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Morality

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

Nature

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."

Wisdom

"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."

Enlightenment

"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

Philosophy

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

Faith

"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."

Philosophy

"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."

Faith

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

Knowledge