“How fast passes away the glory of this world.”
Book I, ch. 3.
These words are used in the crowning of the pope.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
Original
O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
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Thomas à Kempis 41
German canon regular 1380–1471Related quotes
Source: "Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai anticipated prison in letter to family" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/asia/china-bo-xilai-letter/index.html (23 September 2013)
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"
“Stood for his country’s glory fast,
And nail’d her colours to the mast!”
Canto I, introduction, st. 10.
Marmion (1808)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 299.
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. xlix
“We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.”
The Mulberries (1871)
“Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God”
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.423
Context: Christ’s whole body groans in pain. Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God. And each one of us has part in the cry of that whole body. Thou didst cry out in thy day, and thy days have passed away; another took thy place and cried out in his day. Thou here, he there, and another there. The body of Christ ceases not to cry out all the day, one member replacing the other whose voice is hushed. Thus there is but one man who reaches unto the end of time, and those that cry are always His members.