All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Fame”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“Even the best things are not equal to their fame.”
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.”
“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
“Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.”
“The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history until the fame of its grassy meadows and fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of CONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass-ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peacable lives on its banks.”
“Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.”
“It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.”
“It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”
“The stars are the apexes of what triangles!”
“I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,--or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.”

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