Who honours not age, is unworthy of it.

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Beware of men who flourish hereditary honors.

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Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

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follow, serve the Master
be His servant
be honoured

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Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

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The Thief of Honor

The Thief of Honor

The Phony Hero, the fake marine
with their stolen valor, bemedalled chests.
These are the lowest of the low
Who steal the honors of our best.

Those who never took the field
Never came face to face with death.
Presume to wear the highest honors
And campaign ribbons on their chests.

True heroes lie in Arlington,
Or in a hundred foreign fields
Or else live quiet private lives’
And never boast about their deeds.

The thieves of honor think to gain

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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.

quote by Ethel Merman
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Even honor is not an honor, if there is nothing to eat.

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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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Envy Of Other Poets Greater And More Honored Than Me

ENVY OF OTHER POETS GREATER AND MORE HONORED THAN ME

Envy of other poets greater and more honored than me
Only shows how petty and foolish and unwisely ambitious I am-

Each is what he or she is,
And each is only one-
And no one is anyone else-
And better are many, and worse are many-

A poet should write his own lines
And mind his own business-
And take pleasure in the poetry of others
When it gives that.

A poet need not compare and measure himself
But rather simply be what he is.

Write the poems
Leave the honors and the praises to someone else.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

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Excellent people are honored wherever they go.

Tibetan proverbs
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Some are born to honor, and some have honor thrust upon them.

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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.

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She is good and honoured who is dead and buried.

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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

quote by Michel de Montaigne
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