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Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

Joseph Addison
Real, Men, Honor
Joseph Addison (1761). “Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals”, p.307

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

Joseph Addison
Men, Honor, Vices
'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Joseph Addison
Time, Years, Honor

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

Joseph Addison
Death, Honor, Thousand
"Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Joseph Addison
Honor, Titles, Ancestry
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.21

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Joseph Addison
Religious, Men, Honor
Joseph Addison (1761). “The Specator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, considered. The Whig-examiner. The Free-holder. Of the Christian religion”, p.253

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison
Honor, Mind, Example
Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.183

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