The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse read more

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of read more

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.