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FAME
FAME
1

Si post fata venit gloria non propero.

If fame comes after death, I am in no hurry for it.

MartialEpigrams. V. 10. 12.


2

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness
Wise men put off.

MassingerThe Very Woman. Act V. Sc. 4.
(See also Milton, Montaigne, Tachtts, also Barnevent under Mind)


3

Read but o'er the Stories
Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile
And you shall find that the desire of glory
Was the last frailty wise men put of;
Be they presidents.

Sir John Van Olden Barnevelt. Reprinted by A. H. Bullen.


4

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes
Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

Joaquin MillerIna. Sc. 4. L. 273.


5

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

MiltonLycidas. L. 70.
(See also Massinger)


6

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

MiltonLycidas. L. 78.


7

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;
On both his wings, one black, the other white,
Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
 | author = Milton
 | work = Samson Agonistes. L. 971.
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 | topic = Fame
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 8
 | text = "Des humeurs desraisonnables des hommes, il semble que les philosophes mesmes se desfacent plus tard et plus envy de cette cy que de nulle autre: c'est la plus revesche et opiniastre; quia etiam bene profieientes animos tentare rum cessat."
 | trans = Of the unreasoning humours of mankind it seems that (fame) is the one of which the philosophers themselves have disengaged themselves from last and with the most reluctance: it is the most intractable and obstinate; for [as St. Augustine says] it persists in tempting even minds nobly inclined."
 | author = Montaigne
 | work = Essays.
 | place = Bk. I. Ch. XLI.
 | note = Quoting the Latin from St. AugustineDe Civit. Dei. 5. 14.
 | seealso = (See also Massinger)
 | topic = Fame
 | page = 258
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 9
 | text = <poem>I'll make thee glorious by my pen
And famous by my sword.

Marquis of MontroseMy Dear and Only Love.
(See also Scott)


10

Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.
The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
Ovid—Tristium. V. 1. 76.


11

At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier hie est.
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
Persius—Satires. I. 28.


12

To the quick brow Fame grudges her best
wreath
While the quick heart to enjoy it throbs beneath:
On the dead forehead's sculptured marble shown,
Lo, her choice crown—its flowers are also stone.
John James Piatt—The Guerdon.


13

Who grasp'd at earthly fame,
Grasped wind: nay, worse, a serpent grasped that through
His hand slid smoothly, and was gone; but left
A sting behind which wrought him endless pain.
Pollok—Course of Time. Bk. m. L. 533.


14

All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Dunciad.
 | place = Bk. ILL L. 158. Essay on Man. IV. 284.
 | seealso = (See also Savage)
 | topic = Fame
 | page = 258
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 15
 | text = <poem>Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Epilogue to Satire.
 | place = Dialogue I. L. 135.
 | topic = Fame
 | page = 258
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 16
 | text = <poem>Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Epistles of Horace.
 | place = Ep. I. Bk. II. L.26.
 | seealso = (See also Dryden under Name)
 | topic = Fame
 | page = 258
}}

{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 17
 | text = <poem>What's fame? a fancy"d life in others' breath.
A thing beyond us, e'en before our death.

PopeEssay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 237.


18

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind :
Or, ravish'd with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame.

PopeEssay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 281.


19

And what is Fame? the Meanest have their Day,
The Greatest can but blaze, and pass away.

Pope—First Book of Horace. Ep. VI. L. 46


20

Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call;
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.

PopeTemple of Fame. L. 513.


21

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown;
Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

PopeTemple of Fame. L. 523.


22

Omnia post obitum fingit majora vetustas:
Majus ab exsequiis nomen in ora venit.

Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial.

PropertiusElegice. III. 1. 23.


23

Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water 's not to write in vain.

 Anon. in preface to Sir William SandersonArt of Painting in Water Colours. (1658)