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“Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.”

“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

“As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.”

May Said States Certain Values Interest Genius Fame Letters Raises Leaving Improvement Stealing Impression Sentiments Heirs Monarchs Commonwealth Plagiarism Prerogative

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!”

Men May Destiny Fame Raises Grind Powder Colossal

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.”

Thinking Men Character Hate Names Imagine He Man Fame I Hate Praise Raises Ruins Imagine That Slander Transplants Prudes

Book:Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

“Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.”

Heaven Fame Raises Virtuous Favour Me Alone

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“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

“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.”

Mind Lasts Spirit Clear Fame Raises Delight Noble Reputation Scorn Spurs Infirmity Shears

Author:John Milton

“Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.”

Men Heart May Soul Gone Virtue Growing Example Hero Blessing Fame Sight Raises Dare Spread Halls Offering Manhood Memorial Monument Marble Memorial Day Valor

Author:Joshua Chamberlain

“But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.”

Men Needs Son Brother Kings Fame Built Raises Guilt Ruins Secure Thee Titles Reign Eastern Foul Trophies Kindred

Author:John Denham

“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise”

Spirit Clear Fame Raises Spurs Infirmity Shears

Author:John Milton

“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”

Thinking Should Wisdom Action Winning Fame Degrees Sight Raises Rewards Deeds Islamic Good Deeds Already Won

Author:Ibn Hazm