Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

quote by John McCarthy
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

quote by Calvin Coolidge
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Does God Hold Your Country In Honour?

God does not honour countries?
God does not honour nations?
God honours integrity of nations.

God honours men women of integrity.
When the integrity of a nation fails.
The nation in question fails to retain...

the patronage support good will of God.

When you ban God from all schools
all public buildings all public office do
you believe you retain God's good will?

poem by Terence George Craddock
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A fair death honors the whole life.

English proverbs
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Great honours are great burdens.

Romanian proverbs
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

classic quote by Charles Dickens
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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A people that honors its past, secures its future!

aphorism by Octav Bibere
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In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

quote by Horatio Nelson
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
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To Succeed With Honour

the will to honour win
to succeed with honour
to sacrifice for honour

is worth in excess
of 24 carat gold
an attitude not to be sold

poem by Terence George Craddock
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All My Life, I Have Loved It

All life do love west lake good
Come crowd red wheel
Riches and honours float cloud
Head down head up flow years twenty springs

Return come precisely like distant east crane
City wall people
Meet eye all new
Who recognise that year old governor
All my life, I have loved it- West Lake is good.
A crowd around the red wheels,
Riches and honours are floating clouds,
Look down, look up, the years flow on, twenty springs have passed.

Now returned, I look like a crane from the distant east.
The people around the city walls,
All are new that meet the eye,
Who can remember their governor from those olden days?

poem by Ouyang Xiu
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To Love, To Honour And Obey

To love, to honour and obey
Her three vows on her wedding day
She loved and honoured for awhile
But she never once did obey.

Her husband quite a pleasant man
With him she always had her way
And he adhered to his marriage vows
To love, to honour and obey.

He quickly aged before his time
And poor health gave way to decay
And he died at forty nine years old
And a cheap headstone tell where he lay.

And she made sure she held her looks
And with tints and dyes she hid her gray
And she paid huge sum for new face lift
And she looked like one in her prime day.

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poem by Francis Duggan
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If the poet be pure in his morals, he will be pure in his verses too; the pen is the tongue of the mind, and as the thought engendered there, so will be the things that it writes down. And when kings and princes observe this marvelous science of poetry in wise, virtuous, and thoughtful subjects, they honor, value, exalt them, and even crown them witt the leaves of that tree which the thunderbolt strikes not, as if to shos that they whose brows are honored and adorned with such a crown are not to be assailed by anyone.

Miguel de Cervantes in Don 
Quixote
 de
 la
 Mancha (1605), translated by John
 Ormsby
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Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq

Know thou, O stranger to the fame
Of this much lov'd, much honoured name!
(For none that knew him need be told)
A warmer heart Death ne'er made cold.

poem by Robert Burns (1786)
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Pleasures are transient -- honors immortal.

Greek proverbs
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National customs are national honours.

Danish proverbs
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau in Journey to Freedom (1969)
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Humility for the holder

The king honouring his subject,
The subject can boast it off.
The subjects complimenting their king,
The king must not beam with it..
19.10.2011

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others.

quote by Rabbi Mark David Finkel
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