Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.


Mrs. Manley

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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARTIAL
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.
RICHARD LOVELACE
When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.
JOHN WOODEN
When a thing is done, advice comes too late
ROMANIAN PROVERB
Wednesday's glory had become Thursday's ashes.
DAVID PIETRUSZA
Too late always comes too early. She
STEPHEN KING
Death always comes too early or too late.
ENGLISH PROVERB
To many fame comes too late.
LUIS DE CAMOENS
Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier befo...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
SIVAMANI
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, t...
WILL CARLETON
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the...
WILL CARLETON
The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always ...
DON BERRY
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no coun...
RUCKETT
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no coun...
ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE
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CECELIA AHERN
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth,...
WILL CARLETON
Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
THOMAS GRAY
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
ELBERT HUBBARD
He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MRS. MANLEY
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY
Acerra always drinks till dawn.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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No time like the present.
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When people do think about it is when the warm weather hits and it's too late. But it's not too late...
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It's never too late but late when you give up your goals in Life.
CHARITY RAPHAEL
The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.
RASMENIA MASSOUD
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
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The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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JAMES BEATTIE
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
FELIX FRANKFURTER
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
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Nought venture nought have.
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PETER ABRAHAMS
Nought may endure but Mutability.
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I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that i...
SCOTT BAKULA
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The way we are doing this now is too late.
HITOSHI OSHITANI
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MARCEL ACHARD
Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater r...
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Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
MARCUS GARVEY
there are worse things
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but it often takes
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down
BONNIE TYLER
When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.
O. S. HICKMAN
We want to make a late season rush and be playing our best baseball when that time comes.
CHAD LOGAN
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.
DEBRA MESSING
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
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GARY F EVANS...
Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
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Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
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GARY F EVANS...
We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER
Is it ever too late for a sequel?
GARY GOETZMAN
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
OG MANDINO
From the ashes [...] we are arisen.
LAINI TAYLOR
A man only appreciates happiness when he gets married, but by then it is too late.
FRANK SINATRA
The second half, we finally got it after a little bit, but it was too little, too late.
BRIAN MACY
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
MARY ROBERTS RHINEHART
It's too late. It's too late.
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA
No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. B...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It's not too late to save the Arctic Refuge from devastating oil drilling. We have to make our voice...
BILL MEADOWS
Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY
We get too soon old and too late smart.
FRANK KELLY FREAS
We grow too soon old and too late smart
DUTCH PROVERB
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
CLAY AIKEN
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
NANCY THAYER
It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.
ROBERT KURSON
Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the as...
LAURENT LAMOTHE
When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways...
MARILYN MONROE
Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRON
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
DAVID JEROLD
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed...
TOBE HANSON
It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA
It's a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you'r...
BONNIE TYLER
In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
When the time comes, I will leave without uttering a word. So if you want me to stay, stop the time ...
VIPIN ONGALATHE
It was too little, too late. We missed the mark.
BENNIE THOMPSON
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification come...
RICHARD SCHIFF
He comes never late who comes repentant.
JUAN DE HOROZCO
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
WALTER DE LA MARE
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS
If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN
They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
MRS. PAUL M. ELL.
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."
OPHELIA G. BROWNING (MRS. ARTHUR P. ADAMS, MRS. T.E. BURROUGHS)
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science tak...
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE)
It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won...
MRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY
Prevention is better than cure.
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY
Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY
Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I...
ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER (MRS. A.L. FELKIN)
Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN)
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER)
His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, ...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER)
I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who nev...
MRS. FREDERIC J. FAULKS ("THEODOSIA PICKERING GARRISON")
Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)