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  • Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

  • Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

    The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)
  • A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

    Eye   Names   Heaven  
    James Madison (1962). “Papers”
  • It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

    Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press
  • Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

    Country   Book   Kentucky  
    John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1873). “Christopher Carson: Familiarly Known as Kit Carson”, p.9
  • He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

    Sweet   Hymns   Three  
    Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”
  • The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

    Real   Angel   Heaven  
  • renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

    Hands   Littles   Degrees  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社
  • All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

    Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77
  • What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

    Real   Years   Two  
  • When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

    Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”
  • The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

    Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.188
  • In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.

    Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions
  • The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.

    Lying   Book   Mind  
    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

    Home   Heart   Men  
    Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42
  • [Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

    Military   Blood   Age  
    Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1804, e-artnow
  • Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

    Karma   Yoga   Fighting  
  • Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

  • The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

    Edward Young (1824). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.227
  • Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

    Life   Blessed   Wine  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]
  • Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

    Quilts   Lying   Renown  
  • To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood...

    Eye   Land   Games  
    Sir Henry Newbolt, “Clifton Chapel”
  • Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

    Quota   Renown  
  • Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

  • O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

    Art   Greed   Stronger  
    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”
  • I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

    Weed   Sweet   Stars  
    Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”
  • The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd.

    Sex   Men   Blood  
    William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”
  • No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.

  • The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

    Source: collider.com
  • Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

    Idiot   Newts   Renown  
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