Chapter HOMER NODS to HONOUR of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

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

Gay.—Fable II. Part II. Line 69

Content thyself to be obscurely good:
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station

Addison.—Cato, Act IV. (Cato to Juba.)

Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of Kings—
It ought not to be sported with.

Addison.—Cato, Act II. (Juba to Syphax.)

Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part—there all the honour lies.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 193.

HONOUR.—Men were nice in honour in those days,
And judged offenders well. And he that sharp’d,
And pocketed a prize by fraud obtain’d,
Was mark’d and shunn’d as odious.

Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 85.

But now, yes now,
We are become so candid and so fair,
So liberal in construction, and so rich
In christian charity, a good-natured age!
That they are safe, sinners of either sex,
Transgress what laws they may.

Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 91.

Life’s but a word, a shadow, a melting dream,
Compar’d to essential and eternal honour.

Fletcher.—Love’s Cure, Act V. Scene 3.

Where honour calls, and justice points the way.

T. Wharton.—Triumph of Isis, Line 59.

If honour calls, where’er she points the way,
The sons of honour follow, and obey.

Churchill.—The Farewell, Line 67.

Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.

Addison.—Cato, Act I. Scene 4.