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His Reputation Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
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- The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst… — Samuel Butler
- Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine
- The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of… — Margaret Chase Smith
- Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell
- It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev
- A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation… — Henry Ward Beecher
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson
- Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution,… — Ezekiel Emanuel
- That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke
- To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying… — Jesse Helms