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• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Thinking, Wisps

  "At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

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• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

  William Beveridge

  War, Men, Race

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.

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• Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

  Alexander Pope

  Pants, Breaths, Revive

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.274

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• Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

  Alexander Pope

  Errors, Judging, World

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

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• Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.

  Richard Lovelace

  Waiting, Ashes, Too Late

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• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Eye, Joy

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• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  Zebulon Pike

  Congratulations, Men, Names

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1972). “Zebulon Pike's Arkansaw Journal: In Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line (interpreted by His Newly Recovered Maps).”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.

  Nahum Tate

  Angel, Night, Shepherds

  'Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms' (1700) 'While Shepherds Watched'

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Names, Shame

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• The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Would Be, Way, Conscience

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

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• Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
  Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

  Samuel Johnson

  Crowds, Virtue, Casual

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.367

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• The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sweetness

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Ambition, Literature

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• Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

  William Barclay

  Endurance, Bears, Inequality

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• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

  Maya Angelou

  Compassion, Wisps, Forbearance

  "At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

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• Consciousness is the glory of creation.

  James Broughton

  Consciousness, Awareness, Creation

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  The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  Letter to an autograph collector from Washington on April 27, 1837, The Historical Magazine, archive.org. July 1860.

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• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Journey, Joy

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Umpires, Literature

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

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• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Truth, Mouths

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

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• I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Years, America, Poverty

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• We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Struggle, People, Use

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Heart, Garden, Hands

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.

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• Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

  Lord Byron

  Track, Steps, Graves

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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