glory

• 'It seems,' she said, 'that if all other glory were annihilated, and nothing left but his lone self, it would be enough—it would be a universe of glory The day before her death she was asked if she wished to see her child. —  Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission
• At that period, when his glory was at its greatest splendor, he made the first public declaration by which the world could know that he had no personal ambition. —  Simon Bolivar, the Liberator
• Whilst defending the liberty I adore, I shall enjoy perfect freedom myself: I but offer my service to that interesting republic from motives of the purest kind, unmixed with ambition or private views; her happiness and my glory are my only incentives to the task. —  Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
• Before landing in America in 1777 he wrote to his wife: "I but offer my services to that interesting republic from motives of the purest kind, unmixed with ambition or private views: her happiness and my glory are my only incentives to the task. —  The Spirit of Lafayette
• As the rivers of paradise have changed their channels and course since the fall, so hath man’s affections, and so hath his gloriation, so that it may be truly said, that our glory is our shame and not our glory. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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