A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

The post of HONOUR is the post of danger

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  a 1533 LD. BERNERS Huon (EETS) xx. Where as lyeth grete parelles there lieth grete honour. 1613 T. HEYWOOD Brazen Age III. 211 The greater dangers threaten The greater is his honour that breaks through. a 1625 J. FLETCHER Rule Wife (1640) iv. i. I remembered your old Roman axiom, The more the danger, still the more the honour. 1711 Spectator 1 Dec. 1 We consider Human Life as a State of Probation, and Adversity as the Post of Honour in it. 1832 A. HENDERSON Scottish Proverbs 33 The post of honour is the post of danger. 1905 British Weekly 14 Dec. 1 The Chancellorship of the Exchequer .. is preeminently the post of danger, and therefore the post of honour in the new Government. ■honour; peril
  

honour see also give CREDIT where credit is due; a PROPHET is not without honour save in his own country.
hoof see NO foot, no horse.
hop see TURKEY, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.
HOPE deferred makes the heart sick
With allusion to PROVERBS xiii., 12 (AV) Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; cf. c 1395 WYCLIF Bible (1850) Proverbs xiii. 13 Hope that is deferrid, tormenteth the soule; c 1527 J. RASTELL Calisto & Melebea A5^V For long hope to the hart mych troble wyll do.

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  1557 R. EDGEWORTH Sermons 130V The hope that is deferred, prolonged, and put of, vexeth the minde. 1733 J. TALCOTT in Collections of Connecticut Hist. Society (1892) IV. 285 As hope deferred makes the heart sick: so I am in long expectation of your answers. 1889 GISSING Nether World II. vii. There was a heaviness at his heart. Perhaps it came only of hope deferred. 1981 Observer 26 Apr. 14 If hope deferred makes the heart sick, despair is a poor counsellor also. "hope and despair