When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Past and Present (ch. XVII)
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Past and Present (ch. XVII)
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Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Author (l. 233)
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The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome
Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.
Colley Cibber
Quotes , Source: Richard III (act III, sc. 1)
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To myself alone do I owe my fame.
[Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
Pierre Corneille
Quotes , Source: L'Excuse a Ariste
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What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
Abraham Cowley
Quotes , Source: The Motto (l. 1)
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind,
that in the same direction lasts not long.
[It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato
Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi,
E muta nome, perche muta lato.]
Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Quotes , Source: Purgatorio (XI, 100)
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies;
because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with
parching power.
[It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,
Che viene e va; e quei la discolora
Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]
Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Quotes , Source: Purgatorio (XI, 115)
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Who fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Sir John Denham
Quotes , Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 129)
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The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister
immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to
include all others.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: Sybil (bk. I, ch. III)
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
Fred Allen
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Leszczynski Stanislaus
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alan Alda
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