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“Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.”

Soul Body Heaven Middle Fame Graves Verses

Author:John Donne

“From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.”

Firsts Long Soul Body Opinion Practice Praying Fame Train Absurd Superstitious

Book:An History of the Corruption of Christianity

Source: An History of the Corruption of Christianity

“Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.”

Soul Body Desire Possibility Objects Fame Faculty Organs Adapted Relish Fruition Objects Of Desire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“You can Google everyone now, you don't have to peek through a window or wait till she leaves her house. You can look at her Instagram, she's takes selfies, posting images of her body parts for everyone to see. She seeks followers and craves attention to define her self worth. It's a dead end addiction to fame.”

Looks Ends Self Body House Waiting Attention Fame Window Addiction Self Worth Followers Google Worth It Crave Instagram Dead Ends

Author:Pamela Anderson

“God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.”

Ifs Men Mind Shows Body Poor Principles Trouble Materials Fame Intellectual Regard Flesh Ruling Thyself Dwelling Impurity

Book:Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Source: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible.”

Ifs Needs Mind Moments Body Running Order Pleasure Steps Practice Objects Fame Mindfulness Breaths Kingdoms Sensual Craving Kingdom Of God Sensual Pleasure

Author:Nhat Hanh

“In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.”

Men Soul Moments Dream Body Water Dark Fame Fortune Worms Prey Doubtful Flux Incessant Vapor

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”

Mind Dream Body Life Is Land Strange Fame All Things Rivers Streams Delusion Lasting Warfare Oblivion

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.”

Life Stills Body Literature Names Fame Possession Dust This Life Still Life

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.”