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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of read more
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
[Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.]
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at
the wheels of her glittering car.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at
the wheels of her glittering car.
[Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru
Non minus ignotos generosis.]