Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
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