Quotes with homage

  • When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
  • Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
  • By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Nathaniel P. Willis Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
    Nathaniel P. Willis
     
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carl Sagan If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
    Cosmos (1980) p. 67
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • André Malraux To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bernard Barton When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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