Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.

Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Glory is the shadow of virtue.

Glory is the shadow of virtue.

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.

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.]

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.