#glory

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#both #darkness #eclipse #glory #go

Simplicity is the glory of expression. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#glory #simplicity

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#clouds #come #entire #forgetfulness #forgetting

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#grave #lead #paths

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#glory #sight #spare #visions

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

#away #considered #declaration #effect #glory

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

— Clay Aiken

#each #fall #falling #glory #greatest

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. ↗

— Sai Baba

#glory #god #into #look #message

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#glory #once #worth