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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. – Thomas Traherne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. – Sallust	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends; and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
Damn my eyes. Damn my soul. Glorious! – C. S. Forester	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the days of the great struggle against the foreign enemies, who for nearly three years have tried to enslave our fatherland, the Lord God has been pleased to send down on Russia a new heavy trial. Internal popular disturbances threaten to have a disastrous effect on the future conduct of this persistent war. The destiny of Russia, the honor of our heroic army, the welfare of the people and the whole future of our dear fatherland demand that the war should be brought to a victorious conclusion whatever the cost. The cruel enemy is making his last efforts, and already the hour approaches when our glorious army together with our gallant allies will crush him. In these decisive days in the life of Russia, We thought it Our duty of conscience to facilitate for Our people the closest union possible and a consolidation of all national forces for the speedy attainment of victory. In agreement with the Imperial Duma We have thought it well to renounce the Throne of the Russian Empire and to – Nicholas II of Russia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. – Noël Coward	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone. – John Selden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Eternity is a glorious word but eternity is ice. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The mind alike, Vigorous or weak, is capable of culture, But still bears fruit according to its nature. ?Tis not the teacher?s skill that rears the scholar: The sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance It drinks from other light, but the dull earth Absorbs the blaze, and yields no gleam again. – Bhavabhuti	added by anonymous 12 years ago
To exert his power in doing good is man?s most glorious task. – Sophocles	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours. – Tillotson	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! – Edgar Allen Poe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name. – Thomas Osbert Mordaunt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it. – John Lydon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail. – Vincent T. Lombardi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. – Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. – Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. – G.K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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