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“Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.”

Feels Soul Fame Immortality Fever Lulls

Book:Songs of the Sierras

Source: Songs of the Sierras

“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.”

Wisdom Action Known Wise Fame Immortality

Author:Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

“Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.”

Fame Shadow Caught Immortality Shade Shrinks

Book:Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]

Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]

“Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!”

May Action Dark Known Wise Fame Mark Clouds Deeds Circles Immortality Rapture Vanishing Dark Clouds Make Happy

Author:Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

“Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

Giving Children Whole Running Life Is Given Laughing Cry Fame Harmony Errors Whole Life Immortality Isolation Love Life Shaking Merciful

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

Source: Escape from Freedom