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“The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.”

Stills Seems Lasts Young Change Wealth Loss Clear Changed Pride Keys Glory Standards Raises Remains Educational Empires Controlled Minors Impatience Tidy Slums Aboriginal

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."”

Wells Soul Matter Hard Might Political Loss Failure Victory Losing Glory Defeat Shakes Gore Victory And Defeat Victory Defeat

Author:Al Gore

“When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.”

Loss Humility Pride Glory Gains Crosses Died Contempt Surveys Wondrous Sanctity Of Life

Author:Isaac Watts

“The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”

Ifs Want Success Loss Danger Degrees Glory Consequence Ill Reputation Inevitable

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.”

Past Loss Honor Glory Deny Our Past Great Loss

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”

Ifs Giving Christ Loss Love Is Son Cost Highest Glory Display Serving God Valentine Valentine's Day Deserving God Image Acts Of Love Good Friday Best Gift Undeserving

Author:John Piper

“That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.”

World Giving Long Whole Care Loss Novel Color Glory Illusion Burden Don't Care True Or False

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters