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“renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.”

Littles Sometimes Hands Fame Degrees Distinction Notoriety Renown Unfriendly Inconsiderate

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.”

Men Country Matter Done Dies Memories Common Fame Brave Deeds Noble Glorious Heritage Multitudes Posterity Brave Man Renown Good Service Common Knowledge Noble Deeds

Book:The Histories

Source: The Histories

“There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.”

Men Fame Decades One Man Crowns Multitudes Unnoticed Renown

Author:Christopher Paolini

“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

“Short is my date, but deathless my renown.”

Fame Deathless Renown

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown”

Firsts Young Names Strong Education College Fame Ease Veins Fever Gowns Contagion Renown Quilts

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.”

Kind Mean Kings Fame Excess Statesmen Neon Devouring Renown

Book:Great Jones Street

Source: Great Jones Street

“Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.”

Feels Fame Respect Contempt Renown

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man