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William Butler Yeats Quote: 'And say my glory was I ...'

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Profession: Poet
Nationality: Irish
Birthday: June 13, 1865

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.


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There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
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I've had girl friends who've said they liked me, and it's like, 'Look, it's not gonna go anywhere,' but if you say that nicely, then you can still be friends.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.


Imogen Poots
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No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.
Cheryl Tiegs
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.


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Consciousness is the glory of creation.


James Broughton
While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.
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If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.


Monica Johnson
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.


Confucius
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson
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I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.


Pierre Corneille
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We have all fallen short of the glory of God.


Monica Johnson
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With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.


Isadora Duncan
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I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
Marian Seldes
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.


Jean de La Fontaine
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.


William Cowper
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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.


Thomas Jefferson
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
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