Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every life is precious.
We need to appreciate how precious life is.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.
I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
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