Glory is the shadow of virtue.


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Glory is the shadow of virtue.
LATIN PROVERB
Glory is the shadow of virtue
LATIN PROVERB
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue m...
JAMES ALLEN
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them w...
C.S. LEWIS
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
UNKNOWN
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal...
SALLUST
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principl...
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principl...
WALTER SCOTT
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very princip...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.
VANNA BONTA
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
VANNA BONTA
Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]
MARTIN LE FRANC
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
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VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right...
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
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The proverb is something musty.
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance an...
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The Weight of Glory” is found in a humble heart that bows before a Holy God
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS T. CICERO
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
CICERO
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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C.S. LEWIS
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
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The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.
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Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than...
MARCUS T. CICERO
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, th...
MARCUS T. CICERO
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The only reward of virtue is virtue
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AMIT RAY
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
JOSEPH JOUBERT
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L.M. MONTGOMERY
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
The glory of man is knowledge, but the glory of woman is to renounce knowledge.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is onl...
JANE PORTER
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Every moment in your life is precious.Seize the moment & make it your opportunity.Your commitment to...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
DAVID HARE
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
OSCAR WILDE
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
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Virtue is the strong stem of man's nature, and music is the blossoming of virtue.
CONFUCIUS
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C.S. LEWIS
The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.
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KEVIN DEYOUNG
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TIMOTHY B. SHUTT
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JONI EARECKSON TADA
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THOMAS MANTON
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JOHN PIPER
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BETHANY HAMILTON
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
ANDREW MURRAY
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
ANDREW MURRAY
It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.
BROTHER YUN
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JOHN WESLEY
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MATTHEW LEE ANDERSON
Life consists on lightness and darkness, when you reached to lightness, prepare your tools for darkn...
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MAX PALLENBERG
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBE
The shadow of victory is disillusion
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Light is the shadow of God.
PLATO
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
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Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow.
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