Fame Quotes
These are some of the best 'Fame' quotations and sayings.
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A man who cannot win fame in his own age, will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. - There may be some half dozen exceptions to this truth among myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?
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An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. - History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of its words and deeds.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such, it is an accident, not a property of man.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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Few people make much noise after their deaths who did not do so while living.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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Human life is too short to recompense the cares which attend the most private condition: therefore it is, that our souls are made, as it were, too big for it; and extend themselves in the prospect of a longer existence, in good fame, and memory of worthy actions, after our decease.
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I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
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In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
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It is an indiscreet and troublesome ambition that cares so much about fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting to hear the echoes of our own voices.
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