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As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. - Honore de Balzac Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses. - Honore de Balzac Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. - Pierre Jean de Beranger The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory. - William Blake Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. - Marquis Stanislas Jean de Boufflers So may a glory from defect arise. - Robert Browning So may glory from defect arise. - Robert Browning, Deaf and Dumb The glory dies not, and the grief is past. - Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, On the Death of Sir Walter Scott Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan Let us not disdain glory too much--nothing is finer except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. - Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Is death more cruel from a private dagger than in the field from murdering swords of thousands? Or does the number slain make slaughter glorious? - Colley Cibber Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 45) . . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. - William Cowper, Table Talk (l. 1) Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] - Martin le Franc, Didon Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. - James Abram Garfield Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The paths of glory lead but to the grave. - Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 9) The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. - Baron Friedrich von Grimm, Friedrich Melchior Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience. - Henry Home, Lord Kames The first in glory, as the first in place. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 441), (Pope's translation) 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), Satires (I, 6, 23) Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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