Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.

Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

And all at Worcester but the honour lost.

And all at Worcester but the honour lost.

Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
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Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honor shall be mine.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window read more

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a read more

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., Semper in read more

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris,
cogitandum.]