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"Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine."
"The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser."
"Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."
"Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world."
"Community is where humility and glory touch."
"The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere."
"No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]"
"O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord."
"For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed."
"You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it."
"We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others."
"What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you."
"Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires."
"For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands."
"Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation."
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
"It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory."
"Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory."
"Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth."
