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Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell

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A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. – Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com

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Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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