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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so read more
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
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.]
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
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.]
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
