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“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

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

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Author:Aristotle

“A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”

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Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.”

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Author:Louisa May Alcott

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

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Book:The Trend of the American University

Source: The Trend of the American University

“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?”

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Author:David Livingstone

“Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.”

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Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc

“And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell