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- Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage
- He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of… — Washington Irving
- He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes… — William Shakespeare
- All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays… — Dante Alighieri
- 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
- Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose… — Walter Scott
- Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit… — Pindar
- 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
- To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe… — Henry Newbolt
- The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is… — Elias Lyman Magoon
- The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true… — Pope Gregory I