Glory
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution — nor by the courts — nor by the officers of the law — nor by the lawyers — but by the men and women who constitute our society — who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives — the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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