Quote by Joseph Addison
The post of honor is a private station. - Joseph Addison

The post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison

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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Words
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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Honor
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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

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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Honor

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. – Joseph Addison

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Honor

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it werent for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didnt fight with honor… I fought to win. – Orson Scott Card

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Honor

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We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. – Rem Koolhaas

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The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when youre talking about building a house, youre talking about dreams. – Robert A. M. Stern

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Politics isnt about left versus right its about top versus bottom. – Jim Hightower

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