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“If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.”

Ifs Play Fame Picks Endure Fancy Shakes Honour Toys Civility

Author:George Herbert

“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”

Men Mind Night Certain Names Virtue Our Lives Fame Glory Praise Endure Very Good Cease Good Man Posterity Stimulus

Book:Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Source: Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.”

Years Two Real Divine Thousand Fame Highest Eternity Critics Endure Thousand Years Wretched Rhetorical Renown

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“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 is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”

Character Wisdom One Thing Fame Wings Endure Accidents Riches Popularity Vapor Popularity Contest

Author:Horace Greeley

“It is strange what society will endure from its idols.”

Strange Fame Endure Idols

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.”

Winning Fame Endure Opponents Eloquence Benches

Book:The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps

Source: The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.”

May Character Wisdom Today One Thing Tomorrow Fame Wings Endure Accidents Riches Curse Cheer Popularity Vapor

Author:Horace Greeley

“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”

Ifs Giving Heart Soul Dream Light Moving Goal Prayer Liberty Laughing Bears Praying Fame And Love Give Me Endure Lips Riches Lust Esteem Life And Death Scorn I Pray

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.”

Character Motivational Wealth Fame Illusion Endure

Author:O. J. Simpson

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