Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick.
Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 95.
I see my reputation is at stake:
My fame is shewdly gor'd.
TroiLus and Cressida. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 227
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And wink a reputation down!
Sweet— Journal of a Modern Lady. L. 185.
RESIGNATION
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To be resign 'd when ills betide,
Patient when favours are denied,
And pleased with favours given;—
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part,
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Nathaniel Cotton—The Fireside. St. 11.
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| text = <poem>Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me
in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same
mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing
that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt;
clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.
Epictetus—Discourses. Bk. II. Ch. XVI.
Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Deserted Village. L. 110.
To will what God doth will, that is the only
science
That gives us any rest.
Malherbe—Consolation. St. 7. Longfellow's trans.
n That's best
Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs,
With patience suffers unexpected rain;
He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares,
And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted gram.
But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme,
If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
Lady Mary Wohtley Montague—Poem.
Written Oct., 1736.
Placato possum non miser esse deo.
If God be appeased, I can not be wretched.
Ovid—Tristium. III. 40.
Unum est levamentum malorum pati et necessitatibus suis obsequi.
One alleviation in misfortune is to endure
and submit to necessity.
Seneca—De Ira. III. 16.
Placeat homini quidquid deo placuit.
Let that please man which has pleased God.
Seneca—E-pistoke Ad Lucilium. LXXIV.
Thus ready for the way of life or death,
I wait the sharpest blow.
Pericles. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 54.
It seem'd so hard at first, mother, to leave the
blessed sun,
And now it seems as hard to stay—and yet His
will be done!
But still I think it can't be long before I find reAnd that good man, the clergyman, has told me
words of peace.
| author = Tennyson
| work = The May-Queen. Conclusion. St.
3.
RESOLUTION
is Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto II. L. 630.
I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will
not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and
I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison—Salutatory of the
Liberator. Vol. I. No. 1. Jan. 1. 1831.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
William Lloyd Garrison—Salutatory oj the
Liberator. Vol. I. No. 1. Jan. 1, 1831.
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind.
Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 22.
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature
as a settled and full resolve either for good or
evil, except at the very moment of execution.
Hawthorne—Twice - Told Tales. Fancy's
Show Box.
Hast thou attempted greatnesse?
Then go on;
Back-turning slackens resolution.
| author = Herrick
| work = Regression Spoils Resolution.
For when two
Join in the same adventure, one perceives
Before the other how they ought to act;
While one alone, however prompt, resolves
More tardily and with a weaker will.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. X. L. 257.
| note = Bryant's trans.
Resolve, and thou art free.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Masque of Pandora. Pt. VI.
In the Garden.
