Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.