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So may glory from defect arise.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Deaf and Dumb
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The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
Author: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
Source: On the Death of Sir Walter Scott
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Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 45)
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. . . glory built
On selfish principles is shame and guilt.
Author: William Cowper
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.]
Author: Martin le Franc
Source: Didon
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 9)
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The first in glory, as the first in place.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.]
Author: Thomas a Kempis
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.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
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.]
Author: Cornelius a Lapide
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 177)
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Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
Author: Richard Lovelace
Source: Inscription on Title-page of Posthumous Poems
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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (I, 26, 8)
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Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
[Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 2, 36)
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Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (III, 17, 12)
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 300)
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I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
Author: Sextus Propertius
Source: Elegioe (IV, 10, 3)
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: Old Mortality (ch. XXXIV, introductory stanza), discovered in "The Bee", Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791, s
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at I, ii)
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Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Author: Latin Proverb
Source: None
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
Author: Martial
Source: None
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Author: Oriana Fallaci
Source: None
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Author: Martial
Source: None
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Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Author: Joseph P. Thompson
Source: None
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
Source: None
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