"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

Glory, Laughter, Nothing

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"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

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"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."

William Cowper, English Poet

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"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven."

Harriet Tubman, American Activist

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"The Extension Of God's Glory Throughout The Earth Is To Fill The Atmosphere Of Heaven."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The Glory Of God On Earth Demonstrate The Uniqueness Of Heaven."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."

Francis of Assisi, Italian Saint

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"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."

Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist

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"Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory."

William Dunbar, Scottish Poet

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"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."

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"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

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