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• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  Garrett Fort

  Men, Dies

  "Fictional character: Dracula". "Dracula", 1931.

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• England...the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.

  Kedar Joshi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Land

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• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Insomnia

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  John Thorn

  Team, Fall, Heart

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• I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

  Harry S. Truman

  Faith, Believe, Israel

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• There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Mistake, Intolerance, Ancestor

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• There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Wonderful, Moments, Humour

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• In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

  Ellen G. White

  Father, Men, Race

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• In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Power, World, Illusion

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Eugenics, Poverty, Socialism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

  Edward Young

  Art, Fear, War

  The Love of Fame Satire 7, l. 55 (1725 - 1728) See Porteus 1; Jean Rostand 1

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• The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Son, World

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• Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

  Martin Filler

  Art, School, Design

  "The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)" by Martin Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Eye, Imagination, Preparation

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• Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Sin, Righteousness

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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• We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Roles, Earth, May

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.431, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

  Ken Kesey

  Fighting, Want, Littles

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• And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

  Henry Miller

  Mean, Boredom, Stuff

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• Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

  Sharon Shinn

  Fire, Ends, Said

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.143, Penguin

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• Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Life, Song

  "Comment" l. 1 (1926)

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• He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.

  Halldór Laxness

  Children, Sunshine, Thinking

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• But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wine, Men, Feelings

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• According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

  Sam Harris

  Jesus, Believe, Biblical

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• I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

  Emily Bronte

  Wall, Heart, Tears

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.481, Penguin

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