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"The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head."

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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on glory
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"Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?"

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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on glory
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"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."

Cowper, William on glory
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"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."

Gaulle, Charles De on glory
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"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

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"The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them."

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"Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter."

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"Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience."

Hoffer, Eric on glory
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"No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening."

Jenkins, David on glory    Share

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

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"Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood."

Lincoln, Abraham on glory
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"There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy"

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"Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?"

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"Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on glory    Share

"Glory paid to our ashes comes too late."

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"The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick."

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"Glory is the shadow of virtue."

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"I have touched 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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"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell."

Sherman, William T. on glory    Share

"Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory."

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"Glory is the child of peril."

Smollett, Tobias G. on glory    Share

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

Socrates on glory
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"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De on glory    Share

"There's no glory like those who save their country."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on glory    Share

"Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves."

Thompson, Joseph P. on glory    Share

"I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love."

Traherne, Thomas on glory    Share

"God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation."

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"True glory lies in noble deeds."

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"The fire of glory is the torch of the mind."

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"All glory comes from daring to begin."

Ware, Eugene F. on glory
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