#glorious

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#crown #glorious #king #more #pleasant

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. ↗

— Brigham Young

#glass #glorious #god #his #nature

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#banners #glorious #guard #others #our

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#black #glorious #greatness #national #rather

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #aside #bones #glorious #how

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. ↗

— Richard Lewis

#days #glorious #half #life #love

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#appetite #enjoy #existing #future #glorious

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country. ↗

— John Linder

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