Walter Scott Quotes About Glory
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Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
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Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
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Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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