[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
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Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.
Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.
Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but what was sordid and foul; and yet he had rank, and honours, and power, somehow: and was a dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius or spotless virtue.
There is another life both for you and for me,_ said I. __f it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not injure others by the gratification of our own earthly passions; and you have a mother, and sisters, and friends who would be seriously injured by your disgrace; and I, too, have friends, whose peace of mind shall never be sacrificed to my enjoyment, or yours either, with my consent; and if I were alone in the world, I have still my God and my religion, and I would sooner die than disgrace my calling and break my faith with heaven to obtain a few brief years of false and fleeting happiness__appiness sure to end in misery even here__or myself or any other!
Act well your part,there all the honor lies.
Maybe in death you__l understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.
When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in order to set things right. No--you're more than entitled. You're obligated. Or the rule would mean nothing.
Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor
Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.
where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.
The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.