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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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
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.
The glory of Him who
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
The glory of Him who
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.
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.]
So may glory from defect arise.
So may glory from defect arise.
