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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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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
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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
William Shakespeare
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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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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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