GLORY QUOTES IV

quotations about glory


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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

CICERO
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Tusculanarum Disputationum


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Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Glory is the sun of the dead.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

La Recherche de l'Absolu

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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Biglow Papers

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The love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man.

CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Glory is the casual gift of thoughtless crowds.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

attributed, Day's Collacon

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When human glory rises high
As human glory can;
When though the king is truly great,
Still greater is the man.

EDWARD YOUNG

"Resignation"

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The way to prove superior to death is to die with glory.

AL-MUGHALLIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Life of Timon of Athens


Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.

HOMER

The Iliad

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