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People who are
brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality
than out of the honesty.
-- Richard J. Needham
When we
honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the
most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of
giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to
share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender
hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of
grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not
curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our
powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
-- Henri Nouwen
Christian Author
Honest men are
the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
-- Thomas Otway
1652-1685, British Dramatist
A man is sorry
to be honest for nothing.
-- Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
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It is annoying
to be honest to no purpose.
-- Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
The honest man
must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a
perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain
faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the
continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
-- Charles Peguy
1873-1914, French Poet,
Philosopher
Honesty is for
the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
-- Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek
Philosopher
An honest
man's the noblest work of God.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet,
Critic, Translator
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