REPUTATION REPUTATION
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene!
These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times.
Henry VIII. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 3.
Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,
Are many simples operative, whose power
Will close the eye of anguish.
King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 12.
Study to be quiet.
Thessalonians. IV. 11.
The best of men have ever loved repose:
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.
Thomson—The Castle of Indolence. Canto I. St. 17.
Dulcis et alta quies, placidasque simillima morti.
Sweet and deep repose, very much resembling quiet death.
Vergil—Æneid. VI. 522.
Deus nobis haec otia fecit.
God has given us this repose.
Vergil—Eclogm. I. 6.
Chacun s'egare, et le moins imprudent,
Est celui-la qui plus tot se repent.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire—Nanine, II. 10.
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REPUTATION
(See also Name)
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
Richard Bentley—Monk's Life of Bentley. Vol. I. Ch.VI.
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Churchill—Apology.
Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non
solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.
To disregard what the world thinks of us is
not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
Cicero—De Offieiis. 1. 28.
No book was ever written down by any but
itself.
Emerson—Spiritual Laws.
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| text = <poem>Nemo me lacrvmis decoret, nee funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me
with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither
and thither, living in the mouths of men.
Attributed to Ennius. Quoted by Cicero—
Tusc. Qwest. 15. 34. Latter part said to
be Ennius' Epitaph.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
Gay—Fables. The Fox at the Point of Death.
L. 46.
Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von
schwankendem Rufe.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation
bears.
Goethe—Hermann und Dorothea. VII. 93.
Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt
Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.
I consider him of no account who esteems
himself just as the popular breath may chance
to raise him.
Goethe—Iphigenia auf Tauris. II. 1. 140.
That man is thought a dangerous knave,
Or zealot plotting crime,
Who for advancement of his kind
Is wiser than his time.
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| text = <poem>Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity:
dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
Mrs. Jameson—Memoirs and Essays. Washington Attston.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last
some people twice the time of others.
Douglas Jerrold—Specimens of Jerrold's
Wit. Reputations.
How many worthy men have we seen survive
their own reputation!
Montaigne—Essays. Of Glory.
To be pointed out with the finger.
Persius—Satires. I. L. 28.
In various talk th' instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
One speaks the glory of the British queen,
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies.
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| text = <poem>Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich
Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf .
The worst of me is known, and I can say
that I am better than the reputation I bear.
Schiller—Marie Stuart. III. 4. 208.
I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. 11. L. 49.
O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the
immortal part of myself, and what remains is
bestial.
Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 262.
