Best Glories Quotations
125 Glories quotes by 115 unique authors
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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one…
— Mark Twain
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner…
— Socrates
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures…
— Charlie Pierce
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There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all…
— Isaac Watts
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Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.
— Richard Lovelace
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We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are…
— Davy Crockett
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If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities,…
— Frederic Dan Huntington
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
— Camille Paglia
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The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of…
— John Podhoretz
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Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter…
— Brigham Young
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Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces…
— Mary Oliver
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But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
— William Shakespeare
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His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with…
— Angela Carter
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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…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
— Stephen Hawking
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If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have…
— Daniel Dennett
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You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is…
— John Steinbeck
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Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as…
— John Keats
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and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I…
— Mark Helprin
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I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the…
— Tim Wise
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The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories…
— E E Cummings
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