Glory Quotes - Page 22

• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

  Stendhal

  War, People, Soul

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• When I survey the wondrous cross
  On which the Prince of Glory died,
  My richest gain I count but loss,
  And pour contempt on all my pride.

  Isaac Watts

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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• I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers."
  The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bible, Athlete, Writing

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• Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust,
  The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

  Conrad Aiken

  Death, Lying, Dust

  Conrad Aiken (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.37, Oxford University Press

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• During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Dream, Passion, Self

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• Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Death, Destiny

  "Character: Cornélie". "La Mort de Pompée" by Pierre Corneille , act III, scene iv, 1642.

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• Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power, World, Masters

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• Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

  Austin O'Malley

  Winning, Men, Advice

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• For through it all--above, beyond it all--
  I know the far-sent message of the years,
  I feel the coming glory of the Light.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Light, Years, Messages

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1896). “The Torrent: And, The Night Before”

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• Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.

  Frank Pittman

  Parent, Way, Showing Up

  "How to Manage Mom & Dad" by Frank Pittman, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1994.

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• Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

  David Hume

  Military, Reflection, Sublime

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.521, Delphi Classics

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• You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Hero, Eye

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• Man is created for the glory of God.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Men, Glory Of God

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan”, p.103, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Office, Humanity, Christ

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.137, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Men, World, Scandal

  "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book by Ted Goodman, 2016.

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• O happy, golden age!
  Not for that rivers ran
  With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

  Torquato Tasso

  Milk And Honey, Rivers, Tree

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• The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Dream, Shadow, World

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• It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

  Tiki Barber

  Football, Dog, Real

  Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  Fanny Burney

  Children, Hero, Greatness

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• Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

  Paris Reidhead

  Death, God, Religious

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• To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

  Judith Malina

  Fruit, Culture, Use

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• Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.

  Elinor Gadon

  Morning, Imagination, Understanding

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• You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.

  LeCrae

  Manifest, Glory Of God

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• The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.

  Elie Faure

  Art, Taken, Civilization

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