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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare

Greatness, Haste, Glory

1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

William Shakespeare

Greatness, Glory, Touched

1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

William Shakespeare

Lasts, Glory, Rejoice

William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (1999). “King Richard III”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

William Dunbar

World, Glory, Vain

"The Life and Poems of William Dunbar".

God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.

Wayne Grudem

Brightness, Glory, Revelations

Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.200, Harper Collins

Glory is the child of peril.

Tobias Smollett

Children, Glory, Peril

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Thomas a Kempis

Passing Away, Earth, Glory

"Imitation of Christ", Book I, Chapter III. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 313-14, 1922.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Sydney Smith

Reputation, Shame, Glory

Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.88, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

Love begets glory,Work begets story.LOVED WORK Begets A Story of Glory!

Sujit Lalwani

Love Is, Stories, Glory

Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.19, Partridge Publishing

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

Sophocles

Men, Brave, Glory

"Tragedies".

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

Sean Sullivan

Team, Rowing, Glory

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Glory, Thee

"Nearer, my God, to Thee". Poem by Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, hellopoetry.com. 1841.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

Samuel Johnson

Crowds, Virtue, Glory

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.367

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Samuel Johnson

Writing, People, Glory

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.156

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Robert Penn Warren

Writing, Glory, Nancy

1986 On being appointed the first US Poet Laureate. In the Washington Post, 27 Feb.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sea, Treasure, Glory

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Treasure Island (Illustrated Edition): Adventure Tale of Buccaneers and Buried Gold by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.34, e-artnow

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.

Richard Dawkins

Spirit, Glory, Demeaning

"Prince courts controversy as he places the nature of God above the god of science" by James Meek, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2000.

The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.

Pope Francis

Christ, Glory, Crosses

Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.6, BookBaby

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

Family, Ancestry, Glory

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.12

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Plato

Freedom, Democracy, Glory

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”