FAME FAMILIARITY
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Richard Savage—Character of the Rev. James L. 43.
I'll make thee famous by my pen,
And glorious by my sword.
Better to leave undone, than by our deed
Acquire too high a fame, when him we serve's away.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 14.
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 1.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror:
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
Richard III. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 87.
He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause.
Titus Andronicus. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 390.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates.
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Desirous still, still impotent to rise.
Shenstone—Moral Pieces. The Judgment of
Hercules. L. 436.
No true and permanent Fame can be founded
except in labors which promote the happiness of
mankind.
Charles Sumner—Fame and Glory. An
Address before the literary Societies of
Amherst College. Aug. 11, 1847.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Etiam sapientibus cupido glorias novissima
exuitur.
The love of fame is the last weakness
which even the wise resign.
Tacitus—Annates. IV.
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| text = <poem>Modestise fama neque summis- mortalibus
spernenda est.
Modest fame is not to be despised by the
highest characters.
Tacitus—Annales. XV. 2.
The whole earth is a sepulchre for famous men.
THtrcYDmES. 2. 43.
Fama est obscurior annis.
The fame (or report) has become obscure
through age.
Vergil— Æneid. 7. 205.
Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila
condit.
She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head
is concealed in the clouds.
Vergil—Æneid. 4. 177.
In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria.
The object of the labor was small, but not
the fame.
Vergil—Georgics. IV. 6.
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Tel brille au second rang, qui s'eclipse au
premier.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed
in the first.
Voltaire—Henriade. I.
C'est un poids bien pesant qu'un nom trop
t6t fameux.
What a heavy burden is a name that has
become too famous.
Voltaire—Henriade. III.
What rage for fame attends both great and small!
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| text = <poem>With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.
Young—Epistle to Mr. Pope. Ep. I. L. 27.
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious
Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
Young—Love of Fame. Satire I. L. 129.
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts
in view,
Brave men would act though scandal would
ensue.
Young—Love of Fame. Satire VII. L. 175.
Fame is the shade of immortality,
And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught,
Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Yoxmor-Night Thoughts. Night VII. L. 363.
FAMILIARITY
Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Thomas Aquinas—Ad Joannem fratrem Monitio. Syrus—Maxims. 640. Idea in Cicero—Pro Murena. Ch. LX. Lrvr. Bk.
XXXV. Ch.X. Plutarch, C. Mar. Ch.
XVI. La Fontaine—Fables IV. X.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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Ch.VI.
Quod crebro videt non miratur, etiamsi cur
fiat nescit. Quod ante non vidit, id si evenerit,
ostentum esse censet.
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the
reason. If anything happens which he has
not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
Cicero—De Dmnatione. II. 22.
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