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Deus quædam munera universo humano generi dedit, a quibus excluditur nemo.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. SENECA-De Beneficiis. IV. 28.

GLORY 14 So may glory from defect arise.

ROBERT BROWNING—Deaf and Dumb.

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The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

BRYDGES On the Death of Sir Walter Scott.

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Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. BYRON-Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan.

(See also GRAY, LOWELL, MOORE)

Cum quod datur spectabis, et dantem adspice!

While you look at what is given, look also at the giver. SENECA—Thyestes. CCCXVI. 3

(See also OVID) Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.

I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.

As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 34.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 101.

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Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. See CORNELIUS À LAPIDE—Commentaria, 2nd.

Epist. ad Cor. Ch. XII. 7. The sentence is used in the Service of the Pope's enthronement after the burning of flax. Rite used in the triumphal processions of the Roman republic. According to ZONARÆ Annals. (1553)

(See also à KEMPIS)

glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.

COWPER—Table Talk. L. 1.

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
GRAY—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 9.

(See also BYRON)

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The first in glory, as the first in place.
HOMER-Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 441. POPE'S

trans.

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All other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.

Henry IV. Part II. Act 1. Sc. 2. L. 194. Win her with gifts, if she respect not words; Dumb jewels often in their silent kind More than quick words do move a woman's mind.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 89.

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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
VERGIL-Æneid. II. 49.

8 Parta meæ Veneri sunt munera; namque notavi Ipse locum aëriæ quo congessere palumbès.

I have found out a gift for my fair;
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
VERGIL—Eclog. III. 68. English by SHEN-

STONE. Pastoral. II. Hope. Erroneously
attributed to RowE by THOMAS HUGHES in

Tom Brown's School Days. Denn was ein Mensch auch hat, so sind's am Ende Gaben.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift. WIELAND-Oberon. II. 19.

10 Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. War WHITMAN-Leaves of Grass. Song of

Myself. 40.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.
WORDSWORTH-Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Pt. III.

No. 43.
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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.
WORDSWORTH—The Sparrow's Nest.

That every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
WORDSWORTH-T'hese Times Strike Monied

Worldlings.

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The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when

the world He created. LONGFELLOW-The Children of the Lord's Sup

per. L. 177.

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Who would be so mock'd with glory?

Timon of Athens. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 33.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,-nothing so expensive as glory. SYDNEY SMITH-Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol.

I. P. 86.

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Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
LOVELACE–Inscription on Title-page of Pos-
thumous Poems. (1659)

(See also MARTIAL) This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable

feetur. LOWELL—The Biglow Papers. First Series. No. II.

(See also BYRON) Cineri gloria sera est.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARTIAL-Epigrams. I. 26. 8.

(See also LOVELACE)
Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me.
MOORE-Go Where Glory Waits Thee.

(See also BYRON) Immensum gloria calcar habet.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. OVIDEpistolæ Ex Ponto. IV. 2. 36.

Et ipse quidem, quamquam medio in spatio integræ ætatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum ævum peregit.

As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory. Tacitus—Agricola. XLIV.

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Twas glory once to be a Roman;
She makes it glory, now, to be a man.

BAYARD TAYLOR—The National Ode.

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Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.

Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. PHÆDRUS-Fables. III. 17. 12.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness. THEMISTOCLES. On being taunted with his

want of social accomplishments. PluTARCH's Life.

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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd to near have neither heat nor light. JOHN WEBSTER—The White Devil. Act V.

Sc. 1.

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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

WORDSWORTH–To B. R. Haydon. L. 14.

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We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 508.

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

POPE-Second Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 300. Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

PROPERTIUS—Elegiæ. IV. 10. 3. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!

To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life

Is worth an age without a name.
SCOTT_Old Mortality. Ch. XXXIV. Intro-

ductory Stanza. Recently discovered in The
Bee, Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791. Said to have
been written by MAJOR MORDAUNT. Whole
poem reproduced in Literary Digest, Sept.

11, 1920, P. 38. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

Henry VI. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 133. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle; So doth the greater glory dim the less.

Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 92.

Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden its aërial blue
Among the flowers and grass which screen it from

the view.
SHELLEY—To a Skylark.

6 Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the

dark, A moving radiance twinkles.

THOMSON—The Seasons. Summer. L. 1,682.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

BACON—Essays. Of Atheism.

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GNAT 7 A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence; Though frail as dust it meet thine eye, He form’d this gnat who built the sky.

MONTGOMERY—The Gnat.

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From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.

SAMUEL BOYSE—The Deity.

O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side

bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul. BREVINT—Works. P. 17. (Ed. 1679)

(See also TOPLADY) He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine. PHILLIPS BROOKS-Sermons. The Seriousness

of Life. It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened. PHILLIPS BROOKS-Sermons. The Seriousness

of Life.

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GOD Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts. XVII. 23.

(See also VERGIL under GENIUS) Nearer, my God, to Thee

Nearer to Thee-
E'en though it be a cross

That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall

be Nearer, my God, to Thee,

Nearer to Thee!
SARAH FLOWER ADAMS—Nearer, my God, to

Thee! An article in Notes and Queries
states that the words were written by her
sister, MRS. BYRDES FLOWER ADAMS, and
the music only by SARAH FLOWER ADAMS.

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Homo cogitat, Deus indicat.

Man thinks, God directs.
ALCUIN—Epistles.

(See also LANGLAND)