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Heywood Hale Broun
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In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories.
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John Webster
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Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
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Baruch (?Benedict de) Spinoza
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
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Sonny Bono
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
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Alexander Smith
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Fran Lebowitz
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fame is proof that people are gullible.
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MG Siriam
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Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
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John Wooden
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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Erma Bombeck
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Ralph Kiner
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame 5 years in a row.
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Erma Bombeck
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
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Ralph Kiner
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The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July.
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Orison Swett Marden
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Aretha Franklin
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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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Johann von Goethe
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Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
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POPE: _Temple of Fame,_ Line 37.
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Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labor, in their place.
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 281.
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Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 237.
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What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 190.
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For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
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POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 285.
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Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Baruch (?Benedict de) Spinoza
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 207.
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Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
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Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vii., Line 97.
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How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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WILLIAM WINTER: _Queen's Domain._
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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SHENSTONE: _Moral Pieces._
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Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, but impotent to rise.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire i., Line 89.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Heywood Hale Broun
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In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories.
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JEAN INGELOW: _The Star's Monument,_ St. 81.
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There was a morning when I longed for fame, There was a noontide when I passed it by. There is an evening when I think not shame Its substance and its being to deny.
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Lucius Accius Telephus
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire i., Line 137.
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Titles are marks of honest men and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title, lies.
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _The Voiceless._
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A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 67.
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If not to some peculiar end design'd Study 's the specious trifling of the mind, Or is at best a secondary aim, A chase for sport alone, and not for game.
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Epicurus
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Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings
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Oliver Herford
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
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POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 127.
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As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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BYRON: _English Bards,_ Line 43.
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Laugh when I laugh, I seek no other fame, The cry is up, and scribblers are my game.
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GRAY: _Elegy, Epitaph._
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Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 165.
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The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
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BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 36.
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Tasso is their glory and their shame. Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell! And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire v., Line 57.
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A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 't is a task indeed to learn--to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows or makes you both polite and wise.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 193.
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Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; And trifles life.
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Scott Russell Sanders
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The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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MILTON: _On Shakespeare._
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd bones,-- The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 971.
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Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds: On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
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Francis Bacon
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Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.
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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
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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.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see.
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
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Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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"Fame is proof that people are gullible." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You believed in their stories of fame, fortune and glory" -Floyd
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"Good night, Mike Nelson of Sea Hunt fame..." Joel Robinson
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Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
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The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
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What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. F
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"He's being terrorized by the cast of `Fame'!" Tom Servo
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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