XXIV
Glory
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Give to the poor and add glory unto thy name: there is no greater profit for man than this.
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The one theme in the mouth of all that praise is the glory of those that give unto the poor.
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Everything else dieth on earth: but the fame that hath no rival endureth forever.
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Behold the man that hath won a lasting, worldwide fame: the Gods on high prefer him even before saints.
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The ruin that addeth unto fame and the death that bringeth glory belong only to the great-souled.
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If men must needs be born into the world, let them earn glory: as to those who earn it not, it were better for them not to have been born at all.
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Those that are not free from blemish chafe not at themselves: why then are they wroth against their calumniators?
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It is a disgrace for all men if they earn not the memory called fame.
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Behold the land weighed down beneath the tread of an inglorious people: its riches, even though renowned in the past, will wane away.
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They alone live who live without blemish: and they alone die who have lived without glory.