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Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire—an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Topic: Reputation
Location: Lake Powell
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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There is no fire without some smoke. — John Heywood

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Never change when love has found its home. — Sextus Propertius

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is. — Benjamin Franklin

There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. — Homer

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

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Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? — Patrick Henry

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More important than what you did yesterday is what you do today. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

› Maya Angelou

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The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character. — John D. Rockefeller

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A good reputation is more valuable than money. — Publilius Syrus

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

› Benjamin Franklin

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

› Thomas Jefferson

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By the work one knows the workman. — Jean de La Fontaine

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Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. — William Shakespeare

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

› Benjamin Franklin

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. — Logan Pearsall Smith

You pass the test when you do what you say. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius

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Where there was a skunk there is a smell. — African Proverb

Teachers die, but books live on. — Dutch Proverb

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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad deed to lose it. — Benjamin Franklin

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