Glory Quotes - Page 3

• The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Deeds, Helping

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1949). “Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts”

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• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Sad, Art, Pain

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• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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• It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Age, World

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• To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Real, Son

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vivid, Awareness, Strive

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

  Samuel Rutherford

  Infancy Is, Grace, Infancy

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.171

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• The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

  Egerton Brydges

  Grief, Past, Dies

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. p. 313-14, On the Death of Sir Walter Scott, 1922.

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• Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

  Emile M. Cioran

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Glory be to God for dappled things.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Trout, Moles, Finches

  "Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

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• Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

  Thomas a Kempis

  Passing Away, World

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• To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Wine, Water

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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• God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  God, Soul, Mind

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.555, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Men, Flesh

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.281

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• If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Mistake, Justice, Taste

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• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  Samuel Fuller

  War, Surviving

  "Fictional character: Zab". "The Big Red One", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

  William Blake

  Pride, Glory Of God, Peacock

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

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• The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  World, Weapons, Poor

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• The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

  Nick Mancuso

  Actors, Life Is, Crosses

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

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• Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

  George III

  Country, Names, American Revolution

  'The King's Speech on Opening the Session' in 'Hansard' 18 November 1760, col. 942

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• Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

  William Wordsworth

  Dream

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 4

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• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -

  Julia Ward Howe

  Eye, Marching On, Lord

  "Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 1 (1862)

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• There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

  Mario Cuomo

  Political, World, Politics

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans". Book by Martin Higgin, p. 131, 2006.

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• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  Gavin MacLeod

  Hair, Guy, Tough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Media, Journalism, Newspapers

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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