Quotes with glorious

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  • Sophocles To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • William Cowper To combat may be glorious, and succes perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Thomas Traherne To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Milan Kundera To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Felix E. Schelling True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anthony Wayne Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Noel Coward Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Lord George Byron Yet what is death, so it is glorious? 't Is a sunset.
    Sardanapalus
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Bush You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil 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,
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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