Famous Quotes
"At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language."
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"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
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"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."
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"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."
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"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous -
"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
Ambrose Bierce on Famous
More quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
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"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."
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"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete."
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"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved."
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"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind."
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"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete."