Renown Quotes
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All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
William Shakespeare -
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
Homer
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
Petrarch -
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.
Johannes Kepler -
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
Dante Alighieri -
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