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“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.”

Ifs Men May Mean Light Seems Figures Wall Fame Shadow Sight Giants Canvas Sublime Stalking Mould Silhouettes

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”

Men Believe Would Be Fame Projects Shadow Excellence Substance

Book:.) (1850).

Source: .) (1850).

“Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!”

Giving Mind Heart Peace Freedom Wonderful Fame Protect Shadow Crowds Breathe Peace Of Mind Avoided Calmness Your Freedom

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.]

“Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be better off to remain secret as long as possible, work in the denser part of shadows.”

Thinking Long Today Secret Fame Shadow Curiosity Insatiable

Author:Daniel Buren

“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

“A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.”

Fame Shadow Casts Reputation Medal Glitter

Book:War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945

Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945

“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”

Ifs Inspirational Virtue Fame Glory Shadow

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero