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“... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very words... In considering all these things, I preferred Christ. And the words of God were made sweet as honeycombs to me, and I cried after knowledge and lifted up my voice for wisdom. There was moreover the moderation of anger, the curbing of the tongue, the restraint of the eyes, the discipline of the belly, and the trampling under foot of the glory which clings to the earth.”

Made Eye Earth Voice Christ Feet Sweet Discipline Fame Glory Property Tongue Saved Word Of God Offering Cried Considering Restraint Moderation Belly Discipleship

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”

Men Money Wife Birth Fame Fairs Lips Tongue Settling Heavenly Persuasion Venus Dames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.”

World Giving May Form Animal Special Genius Fame Increase Tongue Noise Proportion Pursued Hounds Clamor Notoriety Quarry Aloofness

Book:Innocent

Source: Innocent

“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”

Knows Men Know How Fame Appearance Tongue Personal Appearance

Book:The woman in white

Source: The woman in white

“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”

Writing Use Might Spirit Names Knowing Fame Praise Tongue Tied Tongue Tied

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems