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Popularity It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Vince Lombardi

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Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.

Vince Lombardi

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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake

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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Plutarch

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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus

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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epicurus

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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies.

Alexander Pope

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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.

Winston Churchill

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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Vincent Van Gogh

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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.

William Wordsworth

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The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

Gene Roddenberry

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.

Homer

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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer

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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

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Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Thomas Hobbes

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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith

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