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• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Aristocracy, Literature, Ethics

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• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Art, Poison, Bears

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  'Human Nature' (1650) ch. 9, sect. 13

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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Sacrifice, Self, Instinct

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

  John Updike

  Love, Doe, World

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 08, 2015

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Truth

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Generations, Precedent, Ancestor

  Speech to National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association,Washington, D.C., 16 - 17 Jan. 1877

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• All glory comes from daring to begin.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Courage, Motivation, Business

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Haste, Settings

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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• Glory is like a circle in the water

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Passing Away, Earth

  "Imitation of Christ", Book I, Chapter III. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 313-14, 1922.

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• Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Art, Writing, World

  Les Natchez preface (1826)

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• He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Facts, Found

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

  William Wordsworth

  Props, Infirmity, Boast

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 2, l. 211

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• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Sports, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New Orleans, People, Democracy

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• To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Tired, Blood

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, People, Soul

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• Fear that man who fears not God.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Fear, Men, Fear Not

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• The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Sharpness, Offers

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