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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you read more
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal read more
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
