"Honor is better than honors...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Honor is better than honors.
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“Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.”
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“But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.”
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.”
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“No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.”
“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...”
“All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.”