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• An honest God is the noblest work of man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Men, Religion

  'The Gods' (1876) pt. 1, p. 2.

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• The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

  Thomas Gray

  Path, Graves, Gray

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 36 (1751)

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• We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

  Andrew Young

  Pride

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• Like madness, is the glory of this life.

  William Shakespeare

  Madness

  "The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes".

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• Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  People, Achieve, Cunning

  "A Hero of Our Time". Book by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841.

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• Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

  John Gielgud

  Theatre, Acting, Half

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Touched, Highest

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

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• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Boys

  1880 Speech at Columbus, Ohio,11 Aug. Quoted in Lloyd Lewis Sherman Fighting Prophet (1932).

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• Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.

  John McCain

  People, Return, Causes

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2000). “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir”, p.278, Random House

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• Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

  Charles Lamb

  Waiting, Remember, Fame

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• Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

  Walter Raleigh

  Hope, Giving, Joy

  'The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage'

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• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Confused, Fall

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

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• The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

  Clay Aiken

  Falling In Love, Fall, Rising

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• A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

  Pericles

  Men, Littles, Ill

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• I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

  Will Ferrell

  Sex, Real, Medicine

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Mistake, Mirrors

  "The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children" by Phil Parham, Amy Parham, Harvest House Publishers, (p. 80), September 1, 2011.

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• There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

  Lope de Vega

  Jealousy, Punishment, Jealous Relationship

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• Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hero, Men, Political

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• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

  John Piper

  God, Christian, Religious

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Fame

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

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• The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Inspirational, Dance, Alive

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• But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Home, Clouds

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

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• 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

  Martha Graham

  Acceptance, Maturity, Years

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• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

  John Adams

  Political, Independence, Stage

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.652, Library of America

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