Glory Quotes - Page 2

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  Karel Capek

  People, Perfect, Missing

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.28, Penguin

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• When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

  John Foxe

  Christian, Flower, Heaven

  John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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• There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

  Martial

  Donkey

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

  Gary North

  Jesus, Believe, Loser

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• No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

  Propertius

  Hair, Sure Love, Rivals

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• Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

  Judith Martin

  Pregnancy, Able, Morality

  Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr

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• My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Kings, Offending

  Horatio Nelson's letter to his mistress Lady Hamilton, 1800.

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• I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

  Edie Brickell

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Repose

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

  Virginia Foxx

  Fighting, Land, America

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• Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Would Be, Height, Too Much

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• The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Ease

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.446

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• The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  God, Essence, Divine

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1859). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg”, p.10

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• I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

  Bliss Carman

  Feet, Untamed, Ledges

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

  Will Arnett

  Brother, Writing, Guy

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• There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Thinking, Two, Worst

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

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• The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

  William Blake

  Cutting, Wings, Heaven

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Routledge

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Envy, Rising

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• A field of glory is a field for all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fields

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1760). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.136

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• For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

  John Milton

  Fame

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.232

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• Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

  Madame de Stael

  Morning, Brilliant

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• The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

  George Sand

  Pipe, Smoke

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• You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Flags, Flag Day, Makers

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• If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fathers Day, Son, Earth

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• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Blood

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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