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Fame's pillar here, at last, we set,
Out-during marble, brass, or jet,
(Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. The Pillar of Fame (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Introduction to Poetry, The. J. Paul Hunter, ed. (3d ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
(Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, II, 47.)
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Fame sometimes hath created something out of nothing. She hath made whole countries more than nature ever did, especially near the poles, and then hath peopled them likewise with inhabitants of her own invention, pigmies, giants, and amazons: yea, fame is sometimes like unto a mushroom, which Pliny recounts to be the greatest miracle in nature, because growing and having no root, as fame no ground of her reports.
(Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), British clergyman. The Holy State (1642).)
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Writing," pt. 1, The Dyer's Hand (1962).)
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
(E.M. Cioran (b. 1911), Rumanian-born-French philosopher. "Strangled Thoughts," sct. 1, The New Gods (1969, trans. 1974).)
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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting,
Bid the world's hounds come to horn!
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. The White Stag.)
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Libation Bearers, l. 505.)
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Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Tristia, 3.4. 43-44.)
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
(Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), U.S. aviator, author. New York Times (July 29, 1928), ch. 12, quoted in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989).
Of openings for women in aviation.)
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
For now he lives in fame though not in life.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Prince Edward, in Richard III, act 3, sc. 1, l. 87-8.
Commenting on Julius Caesar.)
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