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“Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.”

Men Would Be Desire Strong Danger Fame Losing Difficulty Pursuit Vain Sufficient Very Strong Obtaining

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.”

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”

Mean Self Loses Opinion Alive Position Fame Praise Ill Illness Vanity Vain Sufficient Endeavor Self Sufficient

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”

Writing Proud Fame Vain

Author:W. H. Auden

“The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.”

Men Littles Dies Fame Lays Aids Faster Vain Schemes Sculptors Deathless Bards

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner

“How vain, without the merit, is the name.”

Literature Names Fame Vanity Vain Merit

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.”

Men World Writing Made Said Hands Pain Dies Names Heaven Virtue One Day Fame Wave Dust Mortals Vain Glorious Live By Tides Decay Verses Our Love Prey Strands Second Hand

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.”

Ifs Love Should May Light Joy Night Time Sports Loses Sun Fame Prove Vain Length Toys Perpetual Good Will Rumours Celia

Author:Ben Jonson

“Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.”

Stills Fame Praise Blame Faults Vain Not Afraid Careless Censure

Book:The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly

Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly