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the loudest thing you can earn and the quietest thing you can keep
means High renown, honor, or magnificent beauty won through achievement, or radiant splendor itself.
from From Latin gloria, 'fame, renown, praise,' of uncertain deeper origin. It arrived in English through Old French glorie around the 12th century, carried largely on the back of religious writing — where 'the glory of God' meant a blinding, weighty radiance. That sense of shining splendor still glows inside the word, even when we use it for a winning goal or a sunset.
- old roots
- From Latin gloria, kin to praise and boasting
- sky version
- A glory is a rainbow halo around your shadow
- sports addiction
- Athletes chase it long after their bodies quit
- short shelf life
- Roman triumphs hired a slave to whisper mortality
- morning glory
- A flower, a hangover, and a wave, all named hope
for instance
glory hole glassblowing — the opening in a furnace at 2100°f where glassmakers reheat their pieces
morning glory flower — ipomoea genus flowering plant with 1000+ species across tropical regions