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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.
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so read more
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
. . . glory built
On selfish principles is shame and guilt.
. . . glory built
On selfish principles is shame and guilt.
Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
