GLORY QUOTES II

quotations about glory

Glory fills the world with virtue, and like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

THOMAS MOORE

Go Where Glory Waits Thee


Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses.

BALZAC

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The glory of the body is indeed visible, and Heaven is a glorious visible place, but yet that which is the greatest glory is spiritual, the soul made holy and perfect.

ANTHONY BURGESS

Spiritual Refining: or, a Treatise of Grace and Assurance


The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

THOMAS GRAY

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard


If personal glory is the greatest good, then by sacrificing all, including one's life, for the city, one makes a net gain, not a sacrifice, if the greatest glory is thereby achieved.

MICHAEL PALMER

Love of Glory and the Common Good


When soldiers break and run, good-bye glory.

HOMER

The Iliad

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

HORACE

Satires


The Lord will never use you till all that is poured out, and you are wiped quite clean and put away with nothing of yourself remaining in you, wherein you may glory. All the saints who are ready to go to heaven feel themselves to be less than the least; but those professors who are by no means ready for glory are highly self conscious, and feel that there is a great deal in them which is very commendable.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons

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I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

MAYA ANGELOU

interview, 1990


Remember that the conquest of glory excels the glory of conquest.

DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY

The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci: the Forerunner


The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.

SOLOMON

Proverbs 15:33


What do you do when humility leads to still greater glory?

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

MADELINE MILLER

The Song of Achilles


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-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND

attributed, Day's Collacon


The paths of glory lead but to the grave--also the paths of ignominy, profligacy and skullduggery.

FRED ALLEN

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Biglow Papers

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Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory, is to be guided by conscience.

KAMES

attributed, Day's Collacon


I have ventur'd,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
At length broke under me.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VIII

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Glory, O glory! thou hast uplifted high in life countless mortals who were nought; those I deem to be happy who have acquired glory truthfully; but those who have it falsely I consider to have it not; it is the mere wantonness of fortune that has given it to them.

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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