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Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
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Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
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May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn’d to fame.
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Men have a solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
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Men should press forward, in fame’s glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
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Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Men’s fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
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Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.
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Milton neither aspired to present fame, nor even expected it; but (to use his own words) his high ambition was ‘to leave something so written to after ages, that they should not willingly let it die.’ And Cato finely observed, he would much rather that posterity should inquire why no statues were erected to him, than why they were.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Money will buy money’s worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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Naked glory is the true and honorable recompense of gallant actions.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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No man shed tears for noble Mutius; He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.
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No one would ever meet death in defence of his country without the hope of immortality.
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