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• If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

  Pericles

  Men, Athens, Valiant

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• If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving Up, Mean, Idols

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• There will be no new arcadian age. There will always be new burdens, new problems, new failures, new beginnings. And the glory of man is to respond to his harsh fate with zest and ever-renewed effort.

  Samuel Florman

  New Beginnings, Fate, Men

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• I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sacrifice, Meat, Chicago

  A Farewell to Arms ch. 27 (1929)

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• Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Numbers, Names, Rivers

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Opportunity, Giving, Suffering

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Winter

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.14, Booklassic

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• The power of the Holy Spirit cannot be successfully duplicated. If a person is supernaturally changed and given a love for God's glory, God did it.

  R. T. Kendall

  Spirit, God Love, Holy

  R. T. Kendall (2014). “Holy Fire”, p.162, Charisma Media

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• For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multiplicity of ways in which the creation witnesses to its Creator: it is like a visible garment, which the invisible God dons in order to make himself known; it is like a book in which the name on the Creator is written as its author; it is like a theater, in which the glory of God is publicly displayed; it is like a mirror, in which the works and wisdom of God are reflected.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Book, Eye, Mirrors

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• The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

  Tahir Shah

  Men, Way, Taste

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

  Paul Simonon

  Moving, Looks, Want

  "The Buzzcocks were very Mondrian and we were Pollock". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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• It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

  Petrarch

  Thinking, Long, Heaven

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• Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Two, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

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• For wisdom is the property of the dead,
  A something incompatible with life; and power,
  Like everything that has the stain of blood,
  A property of the living; but no stain
  Can come upon the visage of the moon
  When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Wisdom, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• yet it seems
  Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
  Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
  But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
  And there's but common greenness after that.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Morning, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Acquaintance; companion;
  One dear brilliant woman;
  The best-endowed, the elect,
  All by their youth undone,
  All, all, by that inhuman
  Bitter glory wrecked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Brilliant, Youth, Bitter

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Giving, Praise

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”

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• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

  William James

  Truth, Real, Thinking

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.78, 谷月社

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• Of all crimes the worst
  Is to steal the glory
  From the great and brave,
  Even more accursed
  Than to rob the grave.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Stealing, Crime

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Issues, Horizon

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.69

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• The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, August, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

  James Joyce

  Perfect, Water, Humanity

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• Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

  Herman Melville

  Selfish, Military, Men

  Herman Melville (1966). “Billy Budd”, p.14, Hayes Barton Press

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• A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Poetry, Virtue

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
  A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
  Enveloping the Earth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Clouds, Light, Issues

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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