Glory

For the 1989 film about the American Civil War, see Glory (film)

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• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
  • James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (1848), First Series. No, II.

• True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.
  • Horace Mann, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256.

• Cineri gloria sera est.
  • Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
  • Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), I. 26. 8.

• 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.
  • Pliny the Elder, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256.

• Glory is like a circle in the water,
  Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
  Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act I, scene 2, line 133.

• When the moon shone, we did not see the candle;
  So doth the greater glory dim the less.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 92.

• Like madness is the glory of this life.
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 139.

• Who would be so mock'd with glory?
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act IV, scene 2, line 33.

• Real glory
  Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave..
  • James Thomson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256.

• We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:
  Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 508.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 313-14.

• So may glory from defect arise.
  • Robert Browning, Deaf and Dumb.

• The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
  • Egerton Brydges, On the Death of Sir Walter Scott.

• Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
  • Lord Byron, Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan.

• Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.
  • Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
  • Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45.

• Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.
  • Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
  • See Cornelius à Lapide, Commentaria, 2nd. Epist. ad Cor, Chapter XII. 7. The sentence is used in the Service of the Pope's enthronement after the burning of flax. Rite used in the triumphal processions of the Roman republic. According to Zonaræ—Annals. (1553).

• * * glory built
  On selfish principles is shame and guilt.
  • William Cowper, Table Talk, line 1.

• The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
  • Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 9.

• The first in glory, as the first in place.
  • Homer, The Odyssey, Book XI, line 441. Pope's translation.

• Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru
  Non minus ignotos generosis.
  • Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
  • Horace, Satires, I. 6. 23.

• O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
  • O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
  • Thomas á Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter III. 6.

• Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire.
  • No flowery road leads to glory.
  • Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, X. 14.

• La gloire n'est jamais où la vertu n'est pas.
  • Glory is never where virtue is not.
  • Le Franc, Didon.

• The glory of Him who
  Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children of the Lord's Supper, line 177.

• Those glories come too late
  That on our ashes wait.
  • Richard Lovelace, inscription on title-page of Posthumous Poems (1659).

• Go where glory waits thee;
  But while fame elates thee,
  Oh! still remember me.
  • Thomas Moore, Go Where Glory Waits Thee.

• Immensum gloria calcar habet.
  • The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
  • Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, IV. 2. 36.

• Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.
  • Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
  • Phaedrus, Fables, III. 17. 12.

• Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
  A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
  • Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace, Epistle I, line 300.

• Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires.
  • I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
  • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, IV. 10. 3.

• 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.
  • Walter Scott, On Mortality, Chapter XXXIV. Introductory Stanza. Recently discovered in The Bee, Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791. Said to have been written by Major Mordaunt. Whole poem reproduced in Literary Digest, Sept. 11, 1920, P. 38.

• Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
  Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force,
  Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill;
  Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
  And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure,
  Wherein it finds a joy above the rest.
  • William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCI.

• Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,—nothing so expensive as glory.
  • Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Volume I, p. 86.

• Heu, quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est.
  • Alas! how difficult it is to retain glory!
  • Syrus, Maxims.

• Et ipse quidem, quamquam medio in spatio integræ ætatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum ævum peregit.
  • As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory.
  • Tacitus, Agricola. XLIV.

• 'Twas glory once to be a Roman;
  She makes it glory, now, to be a man.
  • Bayard Taylor, The National Ode.

• I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.
  • Themistocles, on being taunted with his want of social accomplishments. Plutarch's Life.

• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
  But look'd to near have neither heat nor light.
  • John Webster, The White Devil, Act V, scene 1.

• Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
  • William Wordsworth, To B. R. Haydon, line 14.

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• Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe

• The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
  • Colton

• Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,—both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
  • Shenstone

• The paths of glory lead but to the grave
  • Thomas Gray