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Honor is but an itch in youthful blood of doing acts extravagantly good


Samuel Howard

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Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.
SAMUEL HOWARD Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues ...
WILLARD LIBBY All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought
JOSEPH JOUBERT Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by d...
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NATALIE URQUIETA But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a ...
TIM HOLDEN The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I get this terrible itch. An itch I can only scratch with a pen or a keyboard.
CHARLIE JAMES Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
JOE PATERNO In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
SUSAN SONTAG We had a good situation with Howard and Thome here,
PAT GILLICK Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
UNKNOWN Honor is but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES It was quite an honor. I was very surprised. It's such an encouragement to keep doing what I'm doing...
LAUREL SCHMIDT I think it's a really good thing. They're always doing blood drives for people, but I've never heard...
LAURIE WHITE When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good dee...
GARY RYAN BLAIR Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste goo...
JOE PATERNO Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doi...
F.A. HAYEK She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.
ALYSON NOEL Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL What more evidence does the Howard Government need before it acts against excessive airport charges ...
JOEL FITZGIBBON He has too many lice to feel an itch
CHINESE PROVERBS By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It's certainly an honor to watch them. They've been doing a great job.
PAUL CHITWOOD A roast is really an honor. If they picked me to be roasted, I'd be the most flattered I'd b...
LISA LAMPANELLI I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
RIP TORN There's something deceptively simple about how he acts. It reminds me of Spencer Tracy. It's almost ...
NOAH BAUMBACH I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doi...
MISHA COLLINS But this is quite an honor to be playing at this level in college and going both ways. I just hope I...
DANTE ROSS Not that you're not youthful. You're very youthful, John. But he looks like he's 18!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER The first half is how good we can be. The second half is some of our youthful inexperience showing t...
DAVE SANDERSON To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.
STACEY T. HUNT The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.
MARTY RUBIN The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching.
MARTY RUBIN Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He wa...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am but a message in a world full of messengers
NICHOLAS JOHNSON The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.
GEORGE HERBERT It's a great honor and means you are having a good season and doing something out there. It's also g...
JUNIOR LESSARD The itch of scribbling.
UNKNOWN It just feels good, it's an honor. ... It's pretty fun.
CHARLES ABOUO Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong
THOMAS JEFFERSON I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russ...
JENNIFER CONNELLY “A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
CARLOS CASTANEDA “A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
CARLOS CASTANEDA What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the...
CRISS JAMI The insatiate itch of scribbling.
WILLIAM GIFFORD Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.
PROVERB She is a starter and a sophomore, but acts like an upperclassman on the field. She acts like a leade...
CARRIE BARKER War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and tw...
JOHN CIARDI Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
JERRY SEINFELD We have a youthful team and sometimes youthful teams show inexperience under pressure. Even though w...
BRIAN TOMPKINS In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise...
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SUSAN ESTRICH It's not a good time. Since early July there's been a real wave of arrests and harassment, and acts ...
JOANNE MARINER Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hea...
THOMAS FULLER Youthful exuberance is splendid.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The universe has an itch, and I have been called upon to scratch it.
JAMES HALAT Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the gam...
JOEL KINNAMAN Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleo...
TED MORGAN Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleo...
TED MORGAN I'm proud, but it's a team award. We work together. I'm just one player on a team. Of course it's an...
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WAYNE PEARSON The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and o...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and o...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Be an example of small acts of kindness; help someone in need.
DEBASISH MRIDHA But I don't think of you.

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DAVE SYLVESTER Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
OGDEN NASH Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL They out-executed us down the stretch. Tanner and Howard had good games, but our supporting cast did...
BILL BUFTON Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, ...
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J. L. AUSTIN Acting is a youthful profession.
KIRK DOUGLAS Blood is thicker than water, but both of them DRIP, anyone can turn into an enemy.
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SAMUEL SMILES Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
SAMUEL SMILES The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
SAMUEL SMILES The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in h...
SAMUEL SMILES We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding...
SAMUEL SMILES Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
SAMUEL SMILES Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
SAMUEL SMILES Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes pr...
SAMUEL ADAMS When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to di...
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