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• Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

  Keith Richards

  Black And White, Zoom, White

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• It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Pirate

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Kissing, Light

  Sonnet 33

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• Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

  Lilias Trotter

  Life, God, Christian

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• If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start ‘figuring him out,’ please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.

  Greg Behrendt

  Dating, Guy, Needs

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Ocean, Winter

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Heaven, Grace

  Thomas Guthrie (1859). “Christ and the inheritance of the saints”, p.22

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• I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

  River Phoenix

  Car, Want, Waterfalls

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

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• [Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.

  Paul Halmos

  Knowledge, Science, Analysis

  "Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

  E. M. Forster

  Howards End, Gates, Railway

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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  My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Travel, Home

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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• If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Settling, Scene

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• Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Opportunity, Burden

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• To get rich is glorious.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Political, Politics, Rich

  Attributed in Adweek, 16 Sept. 1985.Widely attributed to Deng, but there is no evidence that he ever used it. It was popularized by Orville Schell's 1984 book, To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s. Schell has stated that he probably encountered the phrase in Chinese media reports.

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• God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Epic, Stories, Ifs

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

  E. M. Forster

  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.

  Lauren Kate

  Hurt, Light, Glowing

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• Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Virtue, Sufficient

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.204, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

  James Whistler

  Beautiful, Wise, Artist

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

  William Gurnall

  Light, World, Sun

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.566

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• Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

  Victoria Moran

  Compassion, May, Action

  Victoria Moran (1985). “Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Mind, Vision

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

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• Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Light, Sun

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.433

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• We declare to the world that the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth. . . . We invite all to listen to the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ from us. Then you can compare the glorious message with what you may hear from others, and you can determine which is from God and which is from man.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Men, World

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