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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
john dryden— 1677 'The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic Licence', an essay prefacing State of Innocence, a libretto based on Paradise Lost.
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.
john adams— (19 February 1756)
Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.
elizabeth hardwick— "Cheever, or, The Ambiguities" (p. 244)
I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.
frances wright— Self-written epitaph on her tombstone in Cincinnati Ohio.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
Michel de Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Of Glory.
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
orson scott card— Chapter 14 (Alvin Journeyman (1995))
And if he be too forward to venture upon his own strength and skill, and perplexity and trouble of a misadventure now and then, that reaches not his innocence, his health, or reputation, may not be an ill way to teach him more caution.
john locke— Sec. 94 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
john lancaster spalding— p. 17 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
The blaze of a reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, letter to Mrs. Thrale (May 1, 1780).
Ever since I became a Muslim … I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.
— Yusuf Islam, as quoted in The Guardian (29 March 2005)
Nevertheless the ancient reputation of the Indians does not permit us to doubt that they have always cultivated astronomy, and the remarkable exactness of the mean motions which they assign to the Sun and the Moon necessarily required very ancient observation.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace The Celestial Key to the Vedas, page 61.
It is evident that Bhoja had the reputation of a strong ruler, able to maintain peace in his kingdom and defend it against Muslim aggression and left this task as a sacred legacy to his succession. He was undoubtedly one of the outstanding political figure of India in ninth century and ranks with Dhruva and Dharmpala as a great general and empire builder.
— According to historian Dr. R. C. Majumdar History of Ancient India: Earliest Times to 1000 A. D..
You have shook hands with reputation And made him invisible.
john webster— 1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.
If we have violated any law, it was not done intentionally. We have injured no man's reputation, character, person, or property.We were meeting together to preserve ourselves, our wives, and our children from utter degradation and starvation.
— 1833 Statement to the Dorchester Assizes, Mar, on behalf of the Tolpuddle martyrs.
You are reminded that this subject has a national reputation through her writings in which she has opposed Nazism and fascism. Under no circumstances should it be known that this bureau is conducting an investigation of her. It should be handled in a most discreet manner and under no circumstances should it be assigned to the local police or some other agency.
lillian hellman— J. Edgar Hoover, in an FBI memo (20 October 1943)
The Tanjore country is celebrated all over the world for its charities. It is called Dharma Raj- and I consider this reputation, which reverts upon me through all countries from this appellation as the most honourable distinction of my rank.
— A monograph on Raja Serfoji II by S.Babaji Rajah Bhonsle Chattrapathy.
Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.
freda adler— P. 215. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))
The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it – if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate – for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.
learned hand— As quoted by William J Brennan Jr, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court, NY Times (October 6, 1963); and later in "The Role of the Court — The Challenge of the Future" in An Affair with Freedom (1967).
In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down.
william james— Ch. 10 (The Principles of Psychology (1890))
reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), (Iago) Act II, scene 3, line 268.
