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Unblemish'd Let Me Live, Or Die Unknown; O Grant An Honest Fame, Or Grant Me None!
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Temple of Fame, Last line
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The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xi, Line 394...
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die
Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie....
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlooked for if she comes at all.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Temple of Fame, Line 513...
All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iii, Line 158...
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue i, Line 136...
The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xii, Line 393...
Grant me the strength to ignore ignorance
Lord, grant me patience, but first .....
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.