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To get a name
can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that
cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which
must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last
unwillingly bestowed.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
He that
pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the
winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to
fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of
his vessel.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
It is a
wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
-- Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
Who would wish
to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous --
who are each individually lost in a throng made up of
themselves?
-- John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet
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The fame of
great men ought to be judged always by the means they used
to acquire it.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer
Throughout my
life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single
exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing
their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call
the motive for their actions fame.
-- Isidore Ducasse, Comte De
Lautreamont
1846-1870, French Author,
Poet
Some people
obtain fame, others deserve it.
-- Doris Lessing
1919-, British Novelist
Fame comes
only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny,
for it is destiny.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet
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