"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." — Napoleon

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Lost time is never found again

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Source: Paracelsus (1835)

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends

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