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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“There is no road of flowers leading to glory”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes |
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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
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“Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.”
Charles Curothe Quotes |
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“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”
John McCain Quotes |
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“Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught”
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“Glory paid to our ashes comes too late”
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“So may glory from defect arise.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Deaf and Dumb
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“The glory dies not, and the grief is past.”
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges Quotes Source: On the Death of Sir Walter Scott
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“Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan
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“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 45)
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“. . . glory built
On selfish principles is shame and guilt.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 1)
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“Glory is never where virtue is not.
[Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]”
Martin le Franc Quotes Source: Didon
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“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 9)
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“The first in glory, as the first in place.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 441), (Pope's translation)
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“Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at
the wheels of her glittering car.
[Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru
Non minus ignotos generosis.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (I, 6, 23)
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“O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
[Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes Source: Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III, 6)
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“No flowery road leads to glory.
[Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Fables (X, 14)
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“Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]”
Cornelius a Lapide Quotes Source: Commentaria, 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. (ch. XII, 7), the sentence is used in the Service of the Pope's ent
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“The glory of Him who
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 177)
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“Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.”
Richard Lovelace Quotes Source: Inscription on Title-page of Posthumous Poems
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“This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (first series, no. II)
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“Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
[Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (I, 26, 8)
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