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“The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”
Jesse Jackson
“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.”
Louise Nevelson
“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory”
John Steinbeck
“Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
William Butler Yeats
“Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.”
Elizabeth I
“In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.”
William Gurnall
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
James Joyce
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”
Dante Alighieri
“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.”
Jonathan Edwards
“Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice.”
Charles Curothe
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