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“Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Holy and Profane State. Fame.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3b3abe67447396d31e03e660967ad41426606565eabf0ee2405ceac44dcd517a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
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“Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.”
John Dryden
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“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn…”
John Milton
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“What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”
John Wolcot
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“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
Lord Byron
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”
Charles Churchill
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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