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“Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.”

Should Poetry Blood Movement Divine Fame Glory Perfection Breaths Endure Supreme Stirring

Book:Obiter Dicta ...: Carlye. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry. Truth-hunting. Actors. A rogue's memoirs. The via media. Falstaff [by George Radford

Source: Obiter Dicta ...: Carlye. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry. Truth-hunting. Actors. A rogue's memoirs. The via media. Falstaff [by George Radford

“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.”

Needs Feels May Hate Felt Silence Fame Praise Breaths Excellence Recognition Envious Conjunctions

Author:Washington Allston

“What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.”

Fame Breaths

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.”

May Book Grace Honor Fame Red Eternity Breaths Edges Spite Endeavor Hunts Disgrace Tombs Heirs Brazen Devouring Scythes

Author:William Shakespeare

“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

“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”

People Philosophy Fame Philosophical Breaths

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”

Way Names Wind Fame Breaths Blow Idols Worldly Wind Blowing

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold”

Life Feelings Passion Love Is Fame Summer Gold Breaths Honour Thirst Passing Away Mould

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.”

Life Death Fame Breaths Fancy

Book:An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

Source: An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

“In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.”

Men Life Soul Moments Materials Fame Breaths Fortune Flux Precarious Life Time Inscrutable

Book:Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English

Source: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English

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