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“Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.”

Failing Honor Affection Noise Nonsense

Author:Robert Lloyd

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.”

Ifs May Use Novel Forever Failing Mystery Reader Kings Honor Promise Pages Criminals Stealing Mysterious Poison Plot Conspiracy Swear Moderation Clue Gang Swarms Mystery Novels

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.”

Ifs Wells Persons Able Animal Practice Study Failing One Thing Figures Objects Particular Genius Honor Painter Landscape Branches Academy

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.”

Source: Can You Forgive Her?

“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.”

Thinking Men Easy Poverty Failing Streets Wall Honor Circumstances Integrity Slave Debt Be A Man Millionaire

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.”

Persons Action Poor Failing Judging Honor Succeed Honored

Author:Francis Bacon

“Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.”

People Failing Honor

Author:Laozi

“Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.”

Ifs Real Remember Law Forget Liberty Principles Failing Sacrifice Honesty Honor Comfort Willingness Commandments Assured Decency Convenience Readiness Without Sacrifice

Author:Richard L. Evans