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“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

May Virtue Path Integrity Blessing Pure Fame Hundred Lasting Temporary Posterity Crooked Straight Path

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.”

Needs Hands Path Feet Greatness Fame Eternity Lips

Author:Philip Larkin

“One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.”

Knows Men Want Writing Humans Littles Has Beens Running Faces Religion Names Women Path Modern Childhood Adventure Fame Ancient Currents Phases Obliged Continuity Modern Woman

Author:Mary Antin

“If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.”

Ifs Giving Eye Earth Desire Path Tree Fame Roots Sincerity Obscurity

Author:Abdullah ibn Mubarak

“I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like.”

People Film Term Path Fame Breakthrough Career Path

Author:Terry Zwigoff

“I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it. I read Naomi Klein's No Logo when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things. I've taken a certain path in terms of all that stuff.”

Mean Feelings Strong Term Path Taken Modern Fame Selling Very Strong Strong Feeling

Author:Andrew Garfield

“Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.”

Knows Feels May Success Path Fame Empowerment Personal Growth Pathways Footsteps Treading Paving The Way

Author:Eileen Caddy

“When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.”

Writing Names Path Fame Paper Climbs This Day Flash Sheets Vow Emily Alpine

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.”

Men Long Has Beens Given Nations Pleasure Path Risk Journey Greatness Fame Men And Women Labor Prosperity Riches Settling Makers Leisure Obscure Hearted Shortcuts Doers Rugged Faint Hearted

Author:Barack Obama

“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”

Ifs Way May Hands Difficult Path Fame Raises Track Temples Climbing Ambitious Thrones Summit Knights Inaccessible Narrow Path Climbing Up

Book:The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.”

Thinking Knows Life Heaven Path Plans Activity Fame Empty Infinite Awakening Wander

Book:Chuang tsu: Inner chapters

Source: Chuang tsu: Inner chapters

“Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.”

Path Cutting Walking Fame Criticism Critics Throat Bandits

Book:The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings

Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings

“Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.”