A Quote by Henry Beston
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
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There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.
Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
Death always before dishonor. (Julian)
Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue
In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
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