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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. (Quote by - George Bancroft)

Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. (Quote by - Timothy Dalton)

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. (Quote by - Karel Capek)

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. (Quote by - Johathan Edwards)

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. (Quote by - Henry James)

Fear that man who fears not God. (Quote by - Abd-el-Kader)

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. (Quote by - Richard Lovelace)

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. (Quote by - Francis of Assisi)

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. (Quote by - Sai Baba)

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. (Quote by - Robert Browning Hamilton)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. (Quote by - Napolean Bonaparte)

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. (Quote by - John McCain)

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. (Quote by - Joseph P. Thompson)

Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. (Quote by - Phaedrus)

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Quote by - Confucius)

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon! (Quote by - Edie Brickell)

The deed is everything, the glory is naught. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

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