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Tag Name "Honourable" (73)

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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Seneca the Younger
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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is my belief one should not belittle the artist while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
Dalai Lama
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You are my true and honourable wife As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
William Shakespeare
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.
Jo Nesbo
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An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.
Don Herold
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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
Patrick Pearse
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But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.
Ian Fleming
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
Clement Attlee
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I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.
John James Cowperthwaite
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I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
John Ruskin
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They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one
Michael Davitt
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Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
Howard Wilkinson
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Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.
Lord Randolph Churchill
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I have been represented as a Protestant minister there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister
Wilfrid Laurier
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History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.
Edward Gibbon
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
Pierre Trudeau
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