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  • Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
  • Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
  • Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
  • I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
  • When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,
  • Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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  • Gustave Flaubert The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Kuyper Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
    Abraham Kuyper
    Dutch politician and theologian (1837 - 1920)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Cassiodorus For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
    Variae, Bk. 9, no. 21; p. 122
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Cassiodorus For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
    Variae, Bk. 2, no. 40; p. 38.
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Joseph Stowell God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Alfred de Musset How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Edna Ferber I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Robert Lynd It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Nelson Mandela Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Stein Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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  • Cate Blanchett Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Jane Harrison Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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