#glorious

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. ↗

— William Shatner

#area #city #cosmopolitan #deal #educated

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall. ↗

— River Phoenix

#car #car accident #day #die #glorious

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence. ↗

— John B. Hood

#banner #beneath #coming #content #first

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. ↗

— John Andre

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Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#end #found #glorious #glory #god