Glory Quotes
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The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
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I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
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Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
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I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
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I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
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So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.
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Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
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The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
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Glory and gore go hand in hand.
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
