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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. I sometimes struggle against luck, the glory of mastering it makes me master it gaily; whereas I am sometimes surfeited in the midst of good fortune.
Blaise Pascal
And Christians take even the Eucharist as a type of the glory at which they aim.
Within me, and in others, what I seek to know is the darkness and the glory of all humanity. My vulnerability leads me to Truth, which is the ultimate defense.
Vanna Bonta
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
Thomas Traherne
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions.
Arthur Desmond
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Proverb
What is called vainglory is self-satisfaction, nourished by nothing but the good opinion of the multitude, so that when that is withdrawn, the satisfaction, that is to say, the chief good which every one loves, ceases. For this reason those who glory in the good opinion of the multitude anxiously and with daily care strive, labour, and struggle to preserve their fame. For the multitude is changeable and fickle, so that fame, if it be not preserved, soon passes away. As every one, moreover, is desirous to catch the praises of the people, one person will readily destroy the fame of another; and, consequently, as the object of contention is what is commonly thought to be the highest good, a great desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means, and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more because he has injured another person than because he has profited himself. This glory of self-satisfaction, therefore, is indeed vain, for it is really no glory.
Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza, E
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi
The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.
Bible
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
Sydney Smith
You told me, I remember, glory, builtOn selfish principles, is shame and guilt; The deeds that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tearsThe laurel that the very lightning spares; Brings down the warriorhttp://www.ccel.org/c/cowper/works/table-talk.htm
William Cowper, Table Talk
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
Lope de Vega
Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
Baron Grimm
Only mastery and sovereignty bring glory, and only slavery brings shame.
