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Christina Rossetti1 quote
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land. — Christina Rossetti · 1862Chuck Palahniuk1 quote
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. — Chuck Palahniuk · 1999Grantland Rice1 quote
For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. — Grantland Rice · 1941Henry Adams1 quote
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams · 1907Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Heraclitus1 quote
The best choose one thing instead of everything, everlasting fame among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. — HeraclitusImogen Cunningham1 quote
I don't talk about success, I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. — Imogen Cunningham · 1975Maximus Decimus Meridius1 quote
Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Neil Young1 quote
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away. — Neil Young · 1978Pericles1 quote
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. — Pericles · 430 BC