The glories of the possible are ours.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
Past glories are poor feeding.
According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
