William Hazlitt Quotes About Fame
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
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