#glory

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ↗

— Martha Graham

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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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Laughter is nothing else but 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

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation. ↗

— Sam Houston

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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ↗

— King Hussein

#boasting #dark #dispel #does #face

What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#fascinated #glory #me #public

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. ↗

— John Adams

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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#each #fall #falling #glory #greatest

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was longing... For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty