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James Russell Lowell

"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

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"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

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"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."

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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."

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"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."

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"Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs."

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"Communicating negatively (gossiping, bragging, bullying, and criticizing) can be disastrous to your reputation, cause you to lose the respect of others, and leave a terrible impression. Why leave this essential expertise up to chance when it can make or break the success of your relations?"

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"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked."

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"A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back."

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"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."

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"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"

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"Like it or not, your life-what works well and what doesn't-is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way."

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"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."
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"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
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"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
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