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“By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”

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Author:Jean Racine

“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

Source: Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893

“Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?”

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Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?”

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Author:William Bennett

“I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.”

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Author:Amber Valletta

“I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to understand, really? Everything I later learned to understand was unspeakably ugly anyway. In time, I bought some rulebooks and squeezed my way onto the honor roll, but, decades later, I've been pointed toward people described as "actively dying" who only now and then seemed to be going about it friskily.There was mostly no hustle I could notice.”

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Author:Gary Lutz

“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”

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Book:RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

Source: RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

“Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.”

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Book:Leepike Ridge

Source: Leepike Ridge

“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

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Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.”

Ifs Next Parent Dying Honor Died

Author:Veronica Roth

“There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.”

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Author:Michael Scott

“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

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Author:John Green