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Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.
Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.
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.
Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me.
Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me.
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.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
The first in glory, as the first in place.
The first in glory, as the first in place.
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.]
