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How to use the word honest in a Sentence? Page #43

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An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty

– Azhar Sabri

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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

– George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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Though [Theophanu] was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners. In this way she protected with male vigilance the royal power for her son, friendly with all those who were honest, but with terrifying superiority against rebels.

– Thietmar of Merseburg

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

– Gerhard Kocher

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This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

– James Russell Lowell

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And let's be honest about it. Hybrid ARMs were never made based on the assumption that the borrowers would be able to make the payment once the loan reset. They were designed as two or three year "bullets" ... with the assumption that home appreciation would allow the borrower to refinance at, or before, reset. Given current conditions in the housing market, this business model is no longer viable, which should come as no shock to anyone.

– Sheila Bair

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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

– George MacDonald

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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience

– William Arthur Ward

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The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

– William Jennings Bryan

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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

– William Hazlitt

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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

– Franklin P. Jones

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You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

– George Burns

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

– Robert Burns

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I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

– Grover Cleveland

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Honor lies in honest toil.

– Grover Cleveland

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

– Norman Douglas

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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

– Lee Iacocca

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

– Ovid

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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

– Immanuel Kant

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A few honest men are better than numbers.

– Oliver Cromwell

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Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

– Herbert Hoover

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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

– Bertrand Russell

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In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

– Gertrude Stein

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