- Quotes by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
“Above all [Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity”. - Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
“It is better to be faithful than famous”. - Quotes by Alexander Pope
“All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or, ravish’d with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn’d to everlasting fame!As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp’d in numbers, for the numbers came. Fame is at best an unperforming cheat; But ’tis substantial happiness, to eat. Then teach me Heav’n! to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish’d let me live, or die unknown: Oh grant an honest Fame, or grant me none. Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlook’d for, if she comes at all”.
- Quotes by Blaise Pascal
“Great and small have the same accidents, and the same vexations, and the same passions; but one is at the circumference of the wheel, and the other near the centre, and thus less agitated by the same movements”.
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