Anonymous
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anonymous
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
The Advancement of Learning
[Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator anf the relief of man's estate.
Beveridge William Henry 1879-1963
Social Insurance and Allied Services
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
The Bible
Old Testament: Ecclesiasticus ch.44 v.7
All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.
Burke Edmund 1729-1797
Reflections on the Revolution in France
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
„Churchill's Grave"
The glory and the nothing of a name.
Corneille Pierre 1606-1684
Le Cid
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
Drake Sir Francis c.1540-1596
(dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham)
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
George III King 1738-1820
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Faust
The deed is all, the glory nothing.
Hopkins Gerard Manley 1844-1889
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too.
Howe Julia Ward 1819-1910
„Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Keats John 1795-1821
„To Leigh Hunt, Esq."
Glory and loveliness have passed away.
Lee Nathaniel c.1653-1692
The Rival Queens
´Tis beauty calls and glory leads the way.
Meredith George 1828-1909
„Love in the Valley"
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
Mottoes and Slogans
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
To the greater glory of God.
Plutarch AD c.46-c.120
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Ralegh Sir Walter 1552-1618
„The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage"
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope's true gage,
And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Rouget De Lisle Claude-Joseph 1760-1836
„La Marseillaise"
Come, children of our country, the day of glory has
arrived ... To arms, citizens! Form your battalions!
Ruskin John 1819-1900
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were the lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Timon of Athens
Like madness is the glory of this life.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Rape of Lucrece
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
Declaration of Rights
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
Sherman William 1820-1891
There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
Studdert Kennedy G.A. 1883-1929
More Rough Rhymes of a Padre ,‚Waste"
Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears,
Waste of youth's most precious years,
Waste of ways the saints have trod,
Waste of Glory, waste of God,
War!
Tate Nahum 1652-1715
„While Shepherds Watched"
While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‚The Revenge"
And they blest him in their pain, that they were not left to Spain,
To the thumbscrew and the stake, for the glory of the Lord.
Vaughan Henry 1622-1695
Silex Scintillans „They are all gone"
I see them walking in an air of glory,
Whose light doth trample on my days.
Wolfe Charles 1791-1823
„The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna"
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone
But we left him alone with his glory.
Wortdsworth William 1770-1850
„Ode. Intimations of Immortality"
The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose,
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Wortdsworth William 1770-1850
„Ode. Intimations of Immortality"
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
,‚Ode. Intimations of Immortality"
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
The Prelude
Science appears but what in truth she is,
Not as our glory and our absolute boast,
But as a succedaneum, and a prop
To our infirmity.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
The Prelude
Through the turnings intricate of verse,
Present themselves as objects recognised,
In flashes, and with glory not their own.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
„The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"
Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.
