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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 awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
 Go where glory waits thee;
 But while fame elates thee,
  Oh! still remember me.  
 Go where glory waits thee;
 But while fame elates thee,
  Oh! still remember me. 
 Those glories come too late
 That on our ashes wait.  
 Those glories come too late
 That on our ashes wait. 
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Glory is the shadow of virtue.