There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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