"Let us honor if we can the vertical……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one"
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor…
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity…
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