Quote by Nicholas Boileau
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland

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Our own heart, and not other mens opinion, forms our true honor. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein

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