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Like madness is the glory of this life.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we may fall.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - Without that, the conqueror is nought but the foist slave.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

The shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design, whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Two things ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory - that the very best have had their calumniators, and the very worst their panegyrists.

We trust, Sir, that God is on our side. "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

When you're number one, you don't play for the tie.


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